<span>The way to rainy mountain has several central themes included in all sections: the power of Language, the importance of Landscape,the role of imagination in connecting with one's ancestral past and the importance of one's traditions in determining one's identity and making sense of one's life.
</span><span>The central thread that connects the three parts of Section VIII in The Way to Rainy Mountain is </span><span>Language is a powerful way to influence reality.</span>
It would be the use of <span>Extended dissonance that doesn't resolve directly to consonance.
Because of this, if people who got used to modern music started to listen to the musics from the past period, they will tend to feel that those music lack some sort of pleasantness in its lyric.
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