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Celtic Theme from AARON'S CROSSING
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Symphonic setting for Irish theme. Note the coincidental melodic similarity between this and the Opening Theme, written 7 years apart.
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AARON'S CROSSING -- an epic in the making... Also, go to <a href=http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandid=631690>Linda Alice Dewey music</a> for the
This is not a band, it is a body of work by myself. I have divided it into two segments, one more classical on this page and another more contemporary. All of the music beautifully fits into the story of AARON'S CROSSING: An Inspring True Ghost Story just published in September 2006, which I am not adapting to a musical stageplay (think Phantom) and to the screen. It's about my encounter with a ghost who actually moved something to get my attention. I realized I might be able to help him and five years after doing so, he returned after having crossed over to dictate his story to me of what happened in his life that he would become a ghost, what it was like to be one, and what it was like for him when I came into his experience. The music for AARON'S CROSSING was written not only during the years I had this experience but is also drawn from music written decades earlier--for reasons I never could understand. But the pieces were good--just didn't fit ME. Most lyrics (on the vocals) were from a male point of view, one had obvious Irish influence (I'm not Irish and wasn't into Celtic music at the time), etc. How the music came to me... Take Celtic Dance and the AARON'S CROSSING Theme--I wrote these songs 7 years apart, yet their melodies are identical, though the settings are different. I woke up hearing the Celtic Dance in my sleep seven years after writing the Theme. I had forgotten I ever wrote the Theme until I found it later in a box of tapes. The music I wrote and composed for AARON'S CROSSING from my past that didn't seem to fit at the time all makes sense now, as it comes together for the musical stageplay and movie.
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Genre
Beats Beats General
Charts
Peak #3,583
Peak in subgenre #283
Author
Linda Alice Dewey
Rights
2005 Linda Alice Dewey
Uploaded
November 30, 2006
Track Files
MP3
MP3 0.7 MB 128 kbps 0:45
Story behind the song
One mornign I awoke with this Irish Jig playing in my head! After getting it down with a tape recorder and a piano, I found a cassette labeled "Four New Songs" and dated 1997. I didn't even recognize the first song, now called the "Opening Theme" until it was nearly finished. Then I vaguely recalled setting these down in a Phoenix studio. It took only a moment to realize the similarity in melody if not texture between what I had just written and this piece from years before.
Lyrics
None However, it has been adapted to a Lullabye which plays later in the stageplay.
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