=
×

Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Head To Head
Log In
Register
The Modern Antiquarian Forum »
Music for Megaliths
Log In to post a reply
97 messages
Topic View: Flat | Threaded
tjj
tjj
3606 posts

Edited Jan 06, 2010, 19:12
Re: Music for Megaliths
Jan 06, 2010, 19:08
gjrk wrote:
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??


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
In reply to:
Music for Megaliths (gjrk)		 Replies:
Re: Music for Megaliths (thesweetcheat)
Re: Music for Megaliths (Branwen)
Topic Outline:
The Modern Antiquarian Forum Index