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Thread #81475   Message #2497139
Posted By: Declan
18-Nov-08 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: The Creel (Paul Brady)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Creel (Paul Brady)
The piece that follows the Creel is a Paul Brady composition which also appears on the album "Welcome Here Kind Stranger" which if I recall correctly was launched on the nigth of the Liberty Hall Concert (which I attended).

in the notes for the WHKS album Brady wrote:

"The piece began almost as an excercise in compound time, but by the beginning of the second part it took on a life of its own and became a tune. It's no accident that it sounds vaguely Balkan as I used what I took to be harmonies, time signatures and chordal changes frequently employed in the music of the region. Beyond that it is entirely a work of the imagination and its musical structure does not conform to any existing one that I am aware of. THe tune breaks down into three distinct parts, each repeated once" He then goes on to give the time signatures of each bar of thwe tune which I won't bore you with and to say that the tune is played three times in all.

Donal's title is based on his imagined reaction of the man in the song having been found by the mother in bed with her daughter.