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posted 11-09-2010 05:21

 
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I think the piece starts out really promisingly, I quite like the first two lines and some other bits here and there, but ultimately the poetry is too dense for the music (and vice versa if you like), and the music draws out the length overmuch.

Yes, that's it exactly. Either the verse needs to be "spread-out" somehow — I suppose the obvious ways are either through editing or repetition — or it should not be sung but more or less recited to a musical background. Or something like that.
 
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posted 11-09-2010 20:11

 
LL: No, I/we hadn't, although I have heard bits of both albums since.
 
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posted 13-09-2010 13:50

 
Tosca: "Birthday" from the album "No Hassle". This as a pop song - Cloths of Heaven
William Butler Yeats
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

And of course there's "The Song of Solomon" on "The Red Shoes" by Kate Bush.
 
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posted 13-09-2010 14:36

 
Awake, Awake by Steeleye Span is also derived from the Song of Solomon.
 
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posted 15-09-2010 01:22

 
Fairport Convention did a great version of "To Althea, From Prison" by Richard Lovelace, on an album in the mid seventies..(minus the rather pro-Royalist third verse!)
 
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posted 17-09-2010 23:32

 
Jackie Leven's fine 'Mad As The Mist And The Snow' (Yeats) from Fairy-Tales For Hard Men (great title, great album) came up on random shuffle today. Which brought to mind Jah Wobble's The Celtic Poets album (world-folk, Irish doodlings set to narrations of Brendan Kennelly, Louis Macniece and other contemporary poets, including Shane MacGowan), a disc you really have to be in the mood for - alone on a winter's night with heavy supplies of whisk(e)y and a foul disposition being possibly the best circumstances.
 
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