sanura | (no subject)

Well, that was easy. Heather picked the ones with the easiest accompaniments (and one duet that can be done a capella).

I want to do the rest of the five in trad-style Ailurian song. I finished Alaiah, and I already have the poems (and translations) for Niara and Evlasha. I don't really want to do my own, so the only one left to write a poem for is Afri. That would extremely difficult to do without becoming completely subjective. These things are supposed to be ballads from the legendary, historical side, making inhuman heroes out of the figures from th Saga of the Throne... In order to write like that about Afri, I'd have to ignore almost everything personal about him. Which would be difficult. But I suppose I could do it. And then, there seems to be a new turn in the tale...

And wolfsong. I remember a long time ago, when we were all less inhibited and had fewer strictures on our personalities... Maybe the Jellicle Ball of eighth grade, when Ally and Nia and Ev and I sat ceremonially around the Lake of Iaguarra (or Jaguara as it was known in those ancient times) and gazed into candles, by element and by animal. Later we all sang at the moon, and though we followed the real intonations of wolves, with Nia's rangy breaks and Ev's high clarity and Ally's deep howl and my sharper starts, I could hear, even with the limited education I had at the time, that there was the potential for structured imitation of this wild thing... there were moments of definite tonality, even occasional triads with a little concentration, but still within the plausible utterances of wolf. And then, later, I rediscovered the Hush album with its reference to coyotes, and recognized the possibility of an entire song made of howls, and I've been hearing them in music occasionally ever since.