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2019-11-17 (Compose) Do You Remember?

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RememberingHere is a simple, but profound story.

There are three natural phases:

The first phase of "Remembering a lost love" tells about someone who once was at the centre of the storyteller's life. The melody recounts in flowering terms some of the most wonderful moments experienced during that time.

In the second movement, we have moved to the "Regret about the lost love". Here we are reliving the pangs felt in missing this precious person. Did we not appreciate the Other as fully and as completely as we might have? Oh, how we are so sorry about the person who has now gone away, and will never come back.

In the third movement, we are in the present. Now is the time of "New hopes". Time moves on, and new persons have appeared on the horizon. We can move to new and happy moments. Hopefully we have learned something, to make the next adventures yet richer and even more complete.

Back in 1873, P.J. Joyce had recorded four accounts and related melodies in various parts of Ireland, which tell this story in somewhat similar ways. One can identify a resemblance to the three movements in my more elaborate version. Joyce's first two melodies in major key emphasized the initial phase of the story, the next movement in minor key recounted the second aspect, and the last melody, again set in major key, evoked the last and concluding element of the story.

Here as one continuous recording are the four versions that were collected by P.J. Joyce:

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And here is my interpretation, both as a piano and as an orchestral version: Due to the limitations imposed by the artificial rendering, I definitely prefer the first, the piano-only version. Some day I hope that we shall have a natural recording for this piece, which will render better justice to the orchestral version of the story.

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MP3s and sheets are here.

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1. A Life of Surprises

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1. A Life of Surprises


This is becoming my life story.

https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/1_EricKeller_ALifeOfSurprises.pdf

Joyce Collection

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Celtic music shows an exceptional and happy combination of strong melodies and interesting rhythms. No wonder that this type of music has inspired many wonderful modern compositions and music groups.

A few years ago I reached back to the roots of Celtic music. In 1873, P.W. Joyce published a precious set of 100 melodies collected from Irish harp players and other local musicians, to be followed in 1909 by second collection of 842 melodies. Harmonics to these tunes were provided by Professor Glover according to known Irish patterns.

Most of these melodies have been widely forgotten. This seems a good place to revive some of those melodies in a modern interpretation. The melodies presented here have been "modernized" with various modifications, comments, extensions and/or new basslines.

These tunes were all created with virtual instruments in our own unique recording setup. These recordings are set in the public domain.

A great deal more information about these and more melody collections by PW Joyce is available on the PW Joyce Irish Music Microsite.

 

P.W. Joyce. 1873. Ancient Irish Music: One Hundred Airs Hitherto Unpublished, Many of the Old Popular Songs, and Several New Songs. Edited and collected. Dublin. McGlashan and Gill.

https://archive.org/details/ancientirishmusi00joyc

P.W. Joyce. 1909. Music And Songs. A Collection of 842 Irish Airs and Songs Hitherto Unpublished. Longmans, Green, and Co.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/itma.dl.printmaterial/joyce_microsite/pdfs/oldirishpart2.pdf

On more about Celtic music in general, see

https://erickeller.es/index.php/compose/20-celtic-folk-music

 

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Ace and Deuce - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 14

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P.W.Joyce Collection 1873: "The words 'Ace and deuce' (or one and two) mean here the highest pitch of excellence; and as the name indicates, the tune was considered the perfection of music when well played on the bag-pipes, and its correct performance was believed to be a sufficient test of the instrumental skill of a piper." (Tempo: original 74, here 120).

Echoes of the Yellow Flail / An Suiste Buidhe - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 4 - detail here and here

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Bealltaine Themes - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 34 - detail here and here

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Cheer up, Daughter - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 26 - detail here and here

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Do You Remember - piano - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 nos 21-24

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Do You Remember - flutes - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 nos 21-24

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Fairy Kings Courtship - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 1 - detail here and here

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Going to be Married - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 17 - detail here and here

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Maidin - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 12 - detail here and here

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Mountains High - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 21 - detail here and here

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Slan Beo. Farewell - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 4

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Sweet Colleen Rue - P.W.Joyce Collection 1909 no 12 - detail here and here

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The Dawning of the Day - P.W.Joyce Collection 1873 no 8 - detail here and here

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2. Guide to Ascension

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2. Guide to Ascension


2.1. Guide to Ascension
2.2. Welcome to Ascension
https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/2_EricKeller_GuideToAscension_1_8.pdf

2.3. The Fifth Dimension
https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/2_EricKeller_GuideToAscension_2_8.pdf

2.4. Major Changes in Life
https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/2_EricKeller_GuideToAscension_3_8.pdf

2.5. Interdimensional communication tools 1
https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/2_EricKeller_GuideToAscension_4_8.pdf

2.5. Interdimensional communication tools 2
https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/2_EricKeller_GuideToAscension_5_8.pdf

2.6. Spiritual Healing
https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/2_EricKeller_GuideToAscension_6_8.pdf

2.7. The Vortex
https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/2_EricKeller_GuideToAscension_7_8.pdf

2.8. Replanting our paradise
https://erickeller.ch/media/ek/ek_lifestory/2_EricKeller_GuideToAscension_8_8.pdf

Eric Keller Collection

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Here are a few of my own melodies, marked as "original composition" or "original interpretation". The full list is here and here.

The distinction between original composition and original interpretation is clarified here.

These compositions were all created with virtual instruments in unique recording setups. They are subject to copyright, but they are free to use in private listening.

 

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