A further thought about how music consoles the grieving (see the previous post).

Think of how grieving people often move rhythmically, like musicians, obsessively and repetitively following the rhythm of the kind of rather rapid breathing you do why you cry inconsolably. Think also of how Shakespeare, in one of most famous lines of all, uses repetition to communicate Lear's grief at the death of his favourite daughter: "Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never."

Maybe that says something about how music chimes in with the needs of the very miserable.

On second thoughts, what that probably tells you is how to describe grief with music. And music like that isn't necessarily going to make you feel any better. Worse, if anything, would be my guess. And I would further guess that you need music with long smooth lines to it, that contradicts and changes such grief stricken rhythms, to console the otherwise inconsolable.