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"Long before our founders met in Philadelphia, their forbears first came to these shores to escape oppression at the hands of despots in the old world who mixed religion with politics and claimed dominion over both their pocketbooks and their souls. This aggressive new strain of right-wing religious zealotry is actually a throw-back to the intolerance that led to the creation of America in the first place." -- Al Gore, 2005-04-27

A few days ago I composed this tune, "She Cries Again", inspired by rendancer's poem of the same name. Actually, I was playing it two octaves lower, but figured more people would be comfortable reading it in treble clef. In my LJ "scrapbook" there's a copy with the title and my name on it, and when I get around to figuring out how to do certain things from anniemal's Mac or when I get home, maybe I'll post a copy in bass clef if anyone cares.

I was thinking of rendancer's poem when I wrote this, but not precisely "trying to set the poem to music". Each section of the tune is twice as long as a stanza of the poem, but what might work is to sing four measures, play four measures as an instrumental, etc. (For the harmony line, I made no attempt to line notes up with words. It was just a cool extra part that unfolded on the guitar.)

I had this in mind as a fairly slow song, but since I forgot to include a tempo marking in the ABC file, when I fed it to a web-based converter, I got back a MIDI file that played a lot faster than what I'd been doing on the guitar ... but I think it sounds kind of cool at that speed as well, however very different the feel is.L

And now I just hope I haven't screwed up any of these links, as I'm writing this while not very awake...

Only a few of y'all will care about this, but I did mean to mention it so that those few won't be wondering why they don't see me this weekend: I shall not be attending Contata this year due to a schedule conflict (a paying gig on Saturday down here). But I'll be thinking of the folks there and expecting convention reports next week, y'hear?