Seven Songs Meme

[hobgoblinn]

Music Meme - tagged by beatrice_otter:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

Benjamin Britten - War Requiem, Op. 66 (Yeah, the whole thing. Particularly the Dies Irae)
Aaron Copland "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Claire Pelletier - "Kabir Kouba"
Loreena McKennitt - The Mask and the Mirror (Album) - particularly "Bonny Swans"
Morten Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna
Semisonic - "Closing Time" (I almost never listen to the radio, but recently I did and heard this and really liked it, so I bought it from iTunes)
Harry Gregson-Williams - Chronicles of Narnia Sountrack (Particularly"Only the Beginning of the Adventure")

All of these are on my "In Loco Parentis" Playlist. I also have an albums playlist, where the tracks play in album order, not the order I set for the other playlist. Good writing/ programming/ not killing annoying co-workers music, all.

I've never been tagged specifically for a meme, and it was kinda cool. So, I'll tag back, but I won't be offended if you decide to blow me off. I tag clavally, liz_marcs, sniggs, esmestrella, sahiya, gillo, whitestar_alpha

(Woulda tagged antennapedia, but beatrice_otter got her first.)

And now, I better get to work on "In Loco," since I will be attending the Spring Camporee with my Wee Hob this weekend. There was a waitlist for it, and we hadn't signed up during the Grounding, but I just found out we got bumped up. They'll be earning the Railroading Merit Badge. I, however, will not be able to take my laptop. Guess I'll have to rough it and use a fountain pen. Shame I can't read my handwriting anymore....

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Love both the War Requiem and Fanfare for the Common Man--though on Fanfare, I think my favorite recording is the Emerson Lake and Palmer rock version. :)

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

I studied the War Requiem in college (and used it for a couple of honors thesis lectures about Poetry and Music for a class of wide-eyed sophomores.) But a high point of my life was singing it with the May Festival Chorus in 2001, both in Cincinnati and then at Carnegie Hall, a month to the day after September 11th.

Are you familiar with the Vaughn Williams Dona Nobis Pacem? That one packs a wallop, too. That was the last thing I got to sing with the Chorus before I got my Wee Hob back. I should add that to my album playlist. That one doesn't take kindly to being chopped up one a songs playlist.

[beatrice_otter]

Mm. I'd love to get a chance to sing that. I'm not familiar with the Vaughn Williams Dona Nobis Pacem.

[veradee.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love Fanfare for the Common Man. I haven't listened to it for a long time, but today a DVD I had bought online arrived. I checked it out and watched a few minutes to see whether the DVD was okay, and in one scene they play Fanfare</>.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

I was hooked on Appalachian Spring for a while, too. But I think "Fanfare" fits some things about Snape in this fic. Or it will if I do my job right.

[nemaihne.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! I want a railroading merit badge.
Good luck on writing by hand. I can never keep continuity and wind up writing a bunch of unrelated scenes when I use pen and paper instead of the processor.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

I have trouble with that continuity stuff, by hand or no. Sometimes unrelated scenes can be fun, though. Ch 5 and 6 of Lost Boys ended up like that, and I left them mostly as is.

[manny-maarie.livejournal.com]

Wow, I don't think I know any of the songs you mentioned, lol. Well, except for Chronicles of Narnia, which I also love.

I'm happy to know that I am not the only one who has an "album" for a story. Many authors find that music hinders their writing, but its the opposite for me really.

Oh, dear old pen and paper. I still use them quite a lot actually. Since I'm a nanny and the kid I babysit sleeps for 2 hours a day, I can use the time to write. And I don't have a laptop, so I write in my little notebook (I love notebooks!!!) I collect them. :p Mostly I write background information for my novel, but sometimes I write out scenes.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

I got the idea from liz_marcs and her mention of certain songs that went with certain of her fics. She also sometimes puts music out on a file sharing service to go with an essay about the music, and last year I think someone asked for and got a "Death Songs" playlist to help them with a ficathon story they were writing.

I think I did a lot of background info writing during nanowrimo-- anything to get myself going and boost wordcount-- and it's a valuable discipline. One I should get myself back to. I'm really feeling the lack struggling through this section of In Loco.

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

My writing partner and I almost always have a soundtrack for a story. It is really funny when we are writing separate but related stories and chose the same songs. I think I'd like the War Requiem...I now have a celtic Requiem stuck in my head. I'm also a huge fan of Loreena McKennitt but my two favs off that album are Mystics Dream and Marrakesh Night Market. I have to say, she really did capture the market with that song. You have also succeeded in scaring me because I haven't heard Closing Time in forever (don't listen to the radio) and on the very day you mentioned it, I heard it when walking into Murrin's lab. I also can't wait for the next installment! wOOt!

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Ever heard the missa Celtica by John Cameron? It's also nice writing music. Britten's an acquired taste, though, and very intense if you actually start listening to what's going on, especially looking at how the Wilfred Owen poems and the requiem text interact.

I owe theblackmare for my introduction to Loreena McKinnett, and Claire Pelletier, who seems a French equivalent. That's why both are well represented on my playlist.

I think I like the keyboard ostinato on Closing Time-- it would be fun to play.

[arcanetrivia]

You must not have got the memo when pythia_delphi tried to get me to do some music meme, that I am really not that into music.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

I don't get a lot of memos, really. In so many areas. Is there any music that you do like, even if it's not a constant companion?

I know you read, of course. What else gives shape to your days, then? That was the line about that meme I really liked-- songs that were currently giving shape to your spring. What does that in your case? Fic? Art?

[arethinn]

Is there any music that you do like, even if it's not a constant companion?

I like Weird Al Yankovic. ;)

It's just not a habit of mine to sit and listen to music on my computer. My mp3 collection mostly gets used for making mix CDs and even then, I'm kind of random about what it is. It's mostly just for noise, or for the horror that is me singing in the car.

What else gives shape to your days, then?

Um, work?

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Dude! "White and Nerdy" is our theme song at work.

Work is a necessary evil. Sometimes just an evil, period....

[angelmischa.livejournal.com]

Hey you, apropos of nothing, did you say that you had some info about how we could run judging with the TNL Awards next month? Would LURVE for you to email it to me/email me so we can have a chat about how it might all work... :-) angel.mischa@yahoo.com

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Well, I have a couple of ratings sheets that have been used on the ones I've done. I don't know so much about the administration side of it, but I'll put something together and shoot it your way.

[angelmischa.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Would love you muchly. I think I'll create a google group for organising stuff. Already have one for the admins with stuff for keeping track of noms and voting. :-D

[whitestar-alpha.livejournal.com]

I'll do it! I've been meaning to do a music meme but haven't found the time until now :)