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For driving up to Duluth and around bits of Lake Superior, I knew I wanted to put together a music mix for driving. (That it's one mix and not, say, three or four, tells you something about my levels of focus.)
I will warn you now: this post is best described as 4000 words of commentary on music and stories in my life, cleverly disguised as a conversation about a mix CD.
That I put together the mix in the first place, however, is a sign that I'm feeling enough like myself to resume the careful dance around music and Tale-the-Harp, and all the other pieces that go into that again, if very slowly and in tiny steps. (I have just done an important step in getting her properly tended and restrung today, go me. Ok. It involved sending an email, but the response is really helpful.)
I was going to say for people who are new to reading me that the music is all tangled and complicated and hard to talk about. But then I went hunting with DW's search function, and realised I'd talked about it. This post is from late 2008, and goes into the background Most of it hasn't changed much. Yet. But part of why I want to take some steps on progress is that one of the people who might be able to give me a hand is going to be out here in June, and it'd be nice to have something to work with.)
But I want to talk about the mix here, not Tale. It includes some stuff I'm going to talk about a lot (the first piece I ever fell in love with in AP Music Theory class my senior year - and not what you'd expect), a digression into Julian of Norwich and T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" and my father's gravestone, and a bit about Tristan and Iseult versus the medieval Arthurian mythos, and some other stuff that might get less comment, but point at some interesting sources.
( Music )
Let a world too tired to sing
Relearn its song
I will warn you now: this post is best described as 4000 words of commentary on music and stories in my life, cleverly disguised as a conversation about a mix CD.
That I put together the mix in the first place, however, is a sign that I'm feeling enough like myself to resume the careful dance around music and Tale-the-Harp, and all the other pieces that go into that again, if very slowly and in tiny steps. (I have just done an important step in getting her properly tended and restrung today, go me. Ok. It involved sending an email, but the response is really helpful.)
I was going to say for people who are new to reading me that the music is all tangled and complicated and hard to talk about. But then I went hunting with DW's search function, and realised I'd talked about it. This post is from late 2008, and goes into the background Most of it hasn't changed much. Yet. But part of why I want to take some steps on progress is that one of the people who might be able to give me a hand is going to be out here in June, and it'd be nice to have something to work with.)
But I want to talk about the mix here, not Tale. It includes some stuff I'm going to talk about a lot (the first piece I ever fell in love with in AP Music Theory class my senior year - and not what you'd expect), a digression into Julian of Norwich and T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" and my father's gravestone, and a bit about Tristan and Iseult versus the medieval Arthurian mythos, and some other stuff that might get less comment, but point at some interesting sources.
( Music )
Let a world too tired to sing
Relearn its song
