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Subject: I need a tune for this poem... From: Bearheart Date: 20 Mar 02 - 09:29 PM For all those out there who are into Celtic music, I need a tune (either traditional or composed by you) for this poem. Backround: Last March I was staying with a friend in Chicago. One morning I woke early with the sun coming in the window and these words were in my head. I started with the first line and they just tumbled out. A tune too, but I'm not happy with it. Too chant-like. I imagine something slow and Celtic, with lots of ornamentation. Oh yes, while I don't feel I can really claim authorship, if this really does come out of me and not some Spirit, it must have its source in some way from William Butler Yeats' "Song of Wandering Aengus", and I often fancy it's the shape-changer's answer to his yearning... Or maybe it's an answer to the question "What do women really want?" Since I don't know how to do the line breaks, I'm just inserting slashes so if some kind soul wants to "re-format" it for me he/she is welcome to do so... (Oh PS I have asked my firend Patrick for a tune, so if he can come up with it before anyone else he has first dibs-- but I've been waiting almost a year...)
Willy, why do I fevered in my bed lie...
And I'll follow you into the hills
But Willy, first I ask this boon Bekki Shining Bearheart copyright 2001 Thanks Folks, Bekki
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: katlaughing Date: 20 Mar 02 - 10:11 PM Bekki, beautiful imagery!! Hope we get to hear the tune when you get one! Good to see you, dear one. (I put your line breaks in:-)luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Amos Date: 20 Mar 02 - 10:26 PM Jesus, Beckki-- I'ld a said you were channeling old Yeats himself there. Beautiful!! BYOOTI---FULL! I will make a pass at putting it to a tune, if you like. Send me a PM with your email address so I can get it back to you for review in due course. Regards, A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Philibuster Date: 20 Mar 02 - 11:04 PM I'm into Celtic very muchly Bear, but the tune that comes to mind for me isn't very Celtified.
You're not uniformly metrical in writing the poem, which is cool, but hard to set a tune to. This would almost be better suited to an orchestral tone poem (Ala Phil Ochs, Pleasures of the Harbor). Something very weird came to mind, but since you didn't ask for weird, I worked out a perpetual pipe solo (in two modes) that you could sing it to with not much editing from verse to verse... I assume the last 2 lines were supposed to be a tag?
The solo sounds almost more medieval like than Celtic, but its still pretty cool. Mind if I email it your way, Bear? =P |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Morticia Date: 21 Mar 02 - 08:30 AM This is wonderful..when you find a tune,would you mind sharing,this song looks right up my street? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: SharonA Date: 21 Mar 02 - 11:14 AM It's a lovely poem. Can't wait to hear the tunes that people write for it. But... what's a shoon? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Amos Date: 21 Mar 02 - 11:17 AM Shoon are those things you put on your feet to make walking in pastures more bearable. Archaic quaint plural of "shoe". Shoon, shoon, I'm a macaroon... I think the old song says. I could be wrong, though. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: MMario Date: 21 Mar 02 - 11:18 AM shoon =plural shoe |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: SharonA Date: 21 Mar 02 - 12:50 PM So... macaroon is the plural of macaroo? *G* |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Bearheart Date: 21 Mar 02 - 03:44 PM Hey thanks for all the good thoughts, etc. I am very open at this point to anything--- It's just that Celtic is what I sing so somethingn compatible would be fine. Kat, I KNEW you'd like it! Thank you, love... Amos I will send you a PM. Thanks for the lovely compliment. Philibuster, the medieval thing sounds fine too. I LIKE weird. I just wrote it the way it came out. Some of them come out like Appalachian ballads, some like blues and some like chants. Some sound pretty Celtic... More later... Bekki
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Mrrzy Date: 21 Mar 02 - 03:47 PM Lovely! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Bearheart Date: 21 Mar 02 - 10:50 PM Thanks for all good thoughts! With so many great musicians around here it's a bit intimidating to put one's stuff out there-- even if one isn't quite sure where it came from or whether to take credit... But it's also the perfect place for collaborations of this kind. Morticia, I'm always glad to share-- When the tune thing is sorted out I'll let you know... Thanks for the footnotes on "shoon"-- it is archaic, but it rhymes better? Bekki |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: GUEST,NightWing@Work Date: 22 Mar 02 - 10:17 AM Read this last night just before bed and had a tune going through my head all night. I'll try to get it down on paper (electronic variety) and PM it to you in a day or two. BB, NightWing |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Peg Date: 22 Mar 02 - 10:40 AM gorgeous! I just sat and read it and made up a melody as I did so. This thing will write itself! I would be happy to try and make a little tape of anything solid I come up with. It might be helpful to have some idea of the structure you want; is there a chorus that repeats? if so, what are the words you'd want for that? peg
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: Bearheart Date: 22 Mar 02 - 12:25 PM Hi Nightwing--didn't know you hung out here! Yes please, PM me. Peg-- it just came out that way. No chorus, but I don't mind minor changes if it doesn't unbalance the sense of the song... The Sun and Moon theme is what holds it together for me, so it would feel like any refrain would echo that, but play with it and see what happens. With all this tunefulness around I might have to ask the Muse for more words... a sequel... Bekki |
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Subject: RE: BS: I need a tune for this poem... From: alison Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:25 AM gorgeous poem... if anyone comes up with a tune I'd love to hear it.... slainte alison |