White Chestnut MRPS-13

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White Chestnut

White Chestnut
Delivery: This is an MP3 track from the CD Musical Remedies for piano solo. You can buy and then download this piece on its own, or you can order the CD and recieve it by post.
Remedy: This piece draws from the Bach Flower Remedy White Chestnut.
Recording: This music includes, Studio recordings and Piano Solo Recordings.

White Chestnut: Remedy from the set of the Second Nineteen

About this music

This has only been realised in a version for piano solo to date (may 09)

A fast moving restless piece which is based on using the diminished whole tone scale and which sounds quite atonal. Rhythmically, the piece uses 7/4, 5/4 and 4/4 time signatures. Finally, the piece comes to a more restful quiet conclusion in 4/4 time.

Lyrics for White Chestnut

White chestnut is an instrumental piece.

About White Chestnut, the Bach Flower Remedy

White Chestnut dispels a repeating pattern of thoughts. These thoughts seem to ‘circle round and round and cause mental torture’. A sequence of events is played and replayed in the mind, like a tape recorder on an endless loop.

‘Thoughts which worry and will remain or if for a time thrown out will return’

The flowers lack defined shape or design. Single flowers are held in a loose pyramid on a central stem. A complex spiral of small side branches hold sets of two three or four flowers. Bursts of varying intensity pulse through the massed light of the flowering candles. Each single flower has five amorphous white petals, delicate and beautiful, but uneven in form. The centre of each flower is splashed with yellow, which quickly turns to red on pollination. The impression is one of change, movement and asymmetry. The flowers are not disorderly but do not conform to a clear pattern of geometry.

Few flowers set seed, fewer develop as ripe fruits; maybe only two or three from each flowering head. These are the well-known conkers. The spikes, like Gorse and Wild Rose stimulate action in order to break the mental pattern. This is vital if the seed of a new future is to be set free. The branches have a curious habit of curving and drooping; a weak form lacking integrity and upright gesture. The roots spread over the surface of the ground and do not penetrate deeply into the earth. The wood splits easily and limbs will often break off. The bark starts out lithe and smooth but becomes fractured. Only the leaves have a more powerful and regular form. Five six or seven leaflets form a compound leaf. The single leaflet is strongly ribbed with a prominent skeleton, the edges jagged, the surface smooth and hairless: an indication of determination and clarity.

White Chestnut is the only one of the Second Nineteen which is prepared by the Sun method. He had already made Chestnut Bud from the leaf buds of the same tree, and indeed Chestnut Bud is closely related to White Chestnut. Both speak of breaking up repeated patterns, but White Chestnut is aimed more at a mental pattern, less at the life action. There is a difference in the level of consciousness involved.

Bach’s description of White Chestnut speaks of ‘times when the interest of the moment is not strong enough to keep the mind full’. This points to a problem of the mind, not an action of the will. The air element is predominant. There is a similarity to Clematis. The overall gesture may be different, but there are elements in common: the white flowers, the rough bark, the smooth leaf etc.

This account of this Bach Flower Remedy is based on the book Bach Flower Remedies : Form and Function by Julian Barnard.

For full information see HealingHerbs.co.uk→.

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