"Circle Story" MP3 posted!
Jul. 21st, 2005 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bnewmanHmmm, how much background?
I wrote this song almost exactly four years ago. It's a lengthly ballad which tells my own version of the myth of the Wheel of the Year, a story I've been playing around with in various forms (i.e. various forms of my version) since I got serious about Wicca.
Writing the song was a big deal to me as a developing pagan, and a number of nifty portents attended its completion. I told all in a lengthly message cross-posted to rec.music.filk and alt.religion.wicca.moderated, which you can read on Google Groups here. But, by the end of that summer, I was starting to think it could use a rewrite — most texts over 1000 words can, after all.
In bits and pieces, I went over the verses that didn't quite click, improving the wording and tightening up the narrative. And, I played with possible variations on the melody, because 26 stanzas with the same tune is a lot. And then I put it down for a while.
A couple of weeks ago, I finally picked it up again, realized I'd already done most of the work I needed to do on it, and pulled it together. And today, I recorded it. All 26 verses. And here it is (9m 17s, 8.4M), and the lyrics and chords are here.
I wrote this song almost exactly four years ago. It's a lengthly ballad which tells my own version of the myth of the Wheel of the Year, a story I've been playing around with in various forms (i.e. various forms of my version) since I got serious about Wicca.
Writing the song was a big deal to me as a developing pagan, and a number of nifty portents attended its completion. I told all in a lengthly message cross-posted to rec.music.filk and alt.religion.wicca.moderated, which you can read on Google Groups here. But, by the end of that summer, I was starting to think it could use a rewrite — most texts over 1000 words can, after all.
In bits and pieces, I went over the verses that didn't quite click, improving the wording and tightening up the narrative. And, I played with possible variations on the melody, because 26 stanzas with the same tune is a lot. And then I put it down for a while.
A couple of weeks ago, I finally picked it up again, realized I'd already done most of the work I needed to do on it, and pulled it together. And today, I recorded it. All 26 verses. And here it is (9m 17s, 8.4M), and the lyrics and chords are here.
