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Sean Cleary
Apr 15, 2013, 11:20:31 PM4/15/13
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Would anyone be interested in setting this to music? or is it just too
long? The notes say the first 4 stanzas were published together as a
published poem.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Old_Astronomer
long? The notes say the first 4 stanzas were published together as a
published poem.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Old_Astronomer
Joe Kesselman
Apr 16, 2013, 5:32:35 PM4/16/13
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On 4/15/2013 11:20 PM, Sean Cleary wrote:
> Would anyone be interested in setting this to music?
Well, it's simple ballad scansion; I could immediately fit it to several
> Would anyone be interested in setting this to music?
tunes, major and minor, that aren't original but that I can't remember
the source of. (And to several annoying things which I'm not going to
mention for fear of earworming people.)
Coming up with an _interesting_ tune is another matter.
Length... It might indeed benefit from editing. How to edit depends on
what aspects of the story you consider most important. It isn't quite
grabbing me enough for me to start making those decisions.
--
Joe Kesselman,
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Sean Cleary
Apr 24, 2013, 10:10:32 AM4/24/13
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On Apr 16, 2:32 pm, Joe Kesselman <keshlam.cat.nos...@verizon.net>
wrote:
not one to work on it.
Sean
wrote:
> On 4/15/2013 11:20 PM, Sean Cleary wrote:
>
> > Would anyone be interested in setting this to music?
>
> Well, it's simple ballad scansion; I could immediately fit it to several
> tunes, major and minor, that aren't original but that I can't remember
> the source of. (And to several annoying things which I'm not going to
> mention for fear of earworming people.)
>
> Coming up with an _interesting_ tune is another matter.
>
> Length... It might indeed benefit from editing. How to edit depends on
> what aspects of the story you consider most important. It isn't quite
> grabbing me enough for me to start making those decisions.
>
> --
> Joe Kesselman,http://www.love-song-productions.com/people/keshlam/index.html
>
> > Would anyone be interested in setting this to music?
>
> Well, it's simple ballad scansion; I could immediately fit it to several
> tunes, major and minor, that aren't original but that I can't remember
> the source of. (And to several annoying things which I'm not going to
> mention for fear of earworming people.)
>
> Coming up with an _interesting_ tune is another matter.
>
> Length... It might indeed benefit from editing. How to edit depends on
> what aspects of the story you consider most important. It isn't quite
> grabbing me enough for me to start making those decisions.
>
> --
>
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Thanks for considering it. It was nice enough to get my attention, but
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not one to work on it.
Sean
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