gjrk
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Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 17:17
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I've just written a short article for the Heritage Journal, about a personal association of a 'megalithic event' with a piece of music:
http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/a-soundtrack-for-the-sun/
Prompted, I should admit, by a recent feature, by Tom Service, in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/02/tom-service-music-landscape-review
This can't therefore be only my own oddity ;) Does anyone else have music that is wedded in their own minds with specific monuments, or moments, perhaps, at the same??
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tiompan
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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 17:28
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gjrk wrote:
That was a nice wee article in the Guardian , good to see that somebody stoill listens to Bruckner . I noticed you mentioned Bryan Magee ,Gordon , what a great bloke and writer ,although I draw the line at Wagner but can't stand "celtic " music which is so often used by producers when looking for some aural honey on the ears ,the other dislike is bombastic sub Stravinsky with it's woooo somebody is going to be sacrificed . Cage's 4' 33'' is ideal for me .
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gjrk
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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 17:34
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"..........."
Thanks George. Still scratching the head on your eclipse possibility...
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moss
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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 18:03
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You're not going to believe this.. but John Taverner's The Protecting Veil would be my choice for the sun rising - its slow high pitched music pulling at the soul represents the sun slowly coming up to the horizon, and then that crashing discordant music in the next movement would illuminate the stones in the full glare of the sun... you can keep Hot Scoria ;)
And classical again, Maxwell Davies's sea music is'nt bad.
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gjrk
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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 18:13
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moss wrote: ... you can keep Hot Scoria ;)
No, no, I'd like to spread it around ;)
Thanks Moss
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Mustard
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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 18:14
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http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Stonehenge-lyrics-Spinal-Tap/C5BF21B1DBC24FA148256DCE002F45C7
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gjrk
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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 18:24
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You could almost be standing there... ;)
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Mustard
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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 18:33
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In a silly white robe ;)
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tjj
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Edited Jan 06, 2010, 19:12
Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 19:08
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gjrk wrote:
I like this post very much.
The most obvious choice that sprang to mind was the Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) by Mendelssohn to remind me of the ferry crossing to Mull and Iona back in 2007. Should I ever make it to Callanish this will be my internal music.
Fingal's Cave
On less dramatic note - The Lark Ascending by Vaughn Williams for walking to hilly places around Avebury on a sunny, spring morning.
Last weekend I made it to a couple of long barrows in the Cotswolds and that evening with my meal listened to In Gloucestshire (String Quartet No 3) by Herbert Howells.
atb
tj
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 19:22
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I love the Lark Ascending, not got it tied to anywhere specific though.
I always think of "Big Louise" by Scott Walker at West Tump.
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