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Still writing.
Today got to the bit that was cool and impressive in my head, where everyone is singing.
Decided 'and then there's choral singing like on that Elizabethan thingy on the tele' wasn't really going to create the impression in the reader that I had intended.
Had a go at rewriting songs.
Realised I don't really know many.
Got out my school assemblies song book.
"Colchester County High School for Girls Music Department"
... oops?
... but I'd written all over it when I was 11, so was probably no good to give back even if I was ever supposed to. Been a while, can't remember.
Book is "New life: songs and hymns for assemblies clubs and churches", copyright 1971.
Every song has a copyright too, except the ones I recognise, which generally say 'Traditional' or something.
One of them says 'Negro spiritual'.
One says "Traditional Hebrew" without bothering to, you know, tell us what it actually means. Singing pretty sounds that come from a whole other culture and could mean absolutely anything and are now in your vaguely religious assembly singing seems a bit off.
Hymn 42 starts "Twenty fags, a jar of ale, A quid each way on 'Monkey'."
... I don't think we ever sang that one. I think I would have remembered.
A great many of the songs are copyright 196something, and, er, it shows.
There's also a bit in the front about "some songs were excluded for being too individualistically Christian for the mixed assembly". And yet "The Virgin Mary had a baby boy" or "Tomorrow Christ is coming" for instance is, erm, not Christian? Their logic, I no follow it.
I ended up nicking 'Morning has Broken' and making it a bit more sci fi. It's not very good. It'll do for now.
I could write stuff from scratch, make it up, but if it's not imitating known music it doesn't get to borrow all the connotations, or the collective memory of all the singing we ever did in school, and it probably won't sound right.
So then I borrow stuff that exists already and twist it, and have a pretty good chance of offending large numbers of people.
So I'm reading this hymn book and it's this little set of poems that you don't hear read out you hear sung by about 500 children who all think the tune is slightly different. And a piano. Last tuned before the war.
Anyway. Am not exactly motoring ahead. Think the story is probably rubbish. Intend to have a version to show people in approximately 1 week. Aren't going to at this rate.
And my computer keeps crashing whenever it catches me slacking off ie whenever I turn it on.
*sigh*
Today got to the bit that was cool and impressive in my head, where everyone is singing.
Decided 'and then there's choral singing like on that Elizabethan thingy on the tele' wasn't really going to create the impression in the reader that I had intended.
Had a go at rewriting songs.
Realised I don't really know many.
Got out my school assemblies song book.
"Colchester County High School for Girls Music Department"
... oops?
... but I'd written all over it when I was 11, so was probably no good to give back even if I was ever supposed to. Been a while, can't remember.
Book is "New life: songs and hymns for assemblies clubs and churches", copyright 1971.
Every song has a copyright too, except the ones I recognise, which generally say 'Traditional' or something.
One of them says 'Negro spiritual'.
One says "Traditional Hebrew" without bothering to, you know, tell us what it actually means. Singing pretty sounds that come from a whole other culture and could mean absolutely anything and are now in your vaguely religious assembly singing seems a bit off.
Hymn 42 starts "Twenty fags, a jar of ale, A quid each way on 'Monkey'."
... I don't think we ever sang that one. I think I would have remembered.
A great many of the songs are copyright 196something, and, er, it shows.
There's also a bit in the front about "some songs were excluded for being too individualistically Christian for the mixed assembly". And yet "The Virgin Mary had a baby boy" or "Tomorrow Christ is coming" for instance is, erm, not Christian? Their logic, I no follow it.
I ended up nicking 'Morning has Broken' and making it a bit more sci fi. It's not very good. It'll do for now.
I could write stuff from scratch, make it up, but if it's not imitating known music it doesn't get to borrow all the connotations, or the collective memory of all the singing we ever did in school, and it probably won't sound right.
So then I borrow stuff that exists already and twist it, and have a pretty good chance of offending large numbers of people.
So I'm reading this hymn book and it's this little set of poems that you don't hear read out you hear sung by about 500 children who all think the tune is slightly different. And a piano. Last tuned before the war.
Anyway. Am not exactly motoring ahead. Think the story is probably rubbish. Intend to have a version to show people in approximately 1 week. Aren't going to at this rate.
And my computer keeps crashing whenever it catches me slacking off ie whenever I turn it on.
*sigh*