Mozart’s Grand Partita conveys an intense emotional experience: obsessive internal struggle for courage and fortitude to bring oneself forward to express love, and overcome the fears and devastation of rejection.

The courage gained, then an ardent plea for love escalates to a higher and higher pleading.and pitch. It is immediately followed by denying it for fear of rejection.

Towards the end, a reluctant withdrawal from all these temptations follows. It leads to a state of resignation, numbness and acceptance.

Rumi’s Melody of the Reed has some of the above attributes. It

starts with a sudden discovery, and admission of strong latent love,

a persistent, obsessive, and polyphonic expression of this love,

and, finally, a somewhat optimistic resignation, and recess.