Beyond Reality discussion

Music can be magical! Share any books you're read where music has magical/fantastic properties.

Now this is a REALLY old memory, but Spellsinger
All I can really remember is music was involved and I'm pretty sure one of the songs mentioned was by the Beach Boys.

I've actually been tempted to read this book again mostly out of curiosity.

Maybe Song of the Beast
Another one a read quite a while back so my memory is a little hazy. (view spoiler)[I think his music had an affect of some kind on the dragons (hide spoiler)]

So, scant details, but I am sure they meet the criteria. :D

Hah, I haven't read Spellsinger but just looking at the cover gives me 80s fantasy nostalgia vibes :)

I think you remember correctly about Song of the Beast, my memory is a bit hazy too but that sounds right.

More fantasy nostalgia - The Lark and the Wren and the rest of Mercedes Lackey's Bardic Voices series. That was a favorite of mine when I was younger.

More recently, Last Song Before Night by Ilana C. Myer (full disclosure, the author is a friend!).

This is SF, but Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey would qualify.

In Janny Wurts’s The Wars of Light and Shadow series, one of the main characters,I think, uses music in a sort of magical way. I have never finished reading that series and will have to reread all the books before I read (for the first time) the last several books.

Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff, and the rest of the Quarters series—songs can make the elemental spirits to do the singers’ bidding, I think.

And The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks.

Oh, I'd forgotten about Crystal Singer! I used to love those books.

Uhura's Song is 'only' a star trek book, but I liked it. :)

The book I’m thinking of is Split Infinity by Piers Anthony. It’s a fantasy/SF hybrid. The protagonist Stile can travel between the technologically advanced Proton to the magically advanced Phaze. In Phaze he learns he can perform magic by using music. He plays a harmonica and accidentally creates a saddle.

Of course I'm old enough that I've heard of Anthony often, including this book. But I've never read one of 'em. However, this intrigues....