twilight dance

hoops, and how to jump through them

idea

As far as I could find out Wolseley Charles was sort of a one-hit wonder, but man, did he write a fun song.

I hope you'll enjoy!

With the most wonderful Helen Roberts on piano.
And yes, of cause it's a Welsh dragon ;).

Lyrics:

Once upon a time lived a Fair Princess
Most beautiful and charming;
Her Father, the King, was a wicked old thing,
With manners most alarming.
And always on the front door mat,
A most ferocious Dragon sat,
It made such an awful shrieking noise
So all you little girls and boys...
Beware, take care,
Of the Green-eyed dragon with the 13 tails,
He'll feed,
With greed
On little boys, puppy dogs and big fat snails.
Then off to his lair each child he'll drag,
And each of his 13 tails he'll wag
Beware,
Take care
And creep off on tip toes.
And hurry up the stairs,
And say your prayers,
And duck your heads, your pretty curly heads,
Beneath the clothes, the clothes, the clothes.

That Dragon he lived for years and years,
But he never grew much thinner.
For lunch, he'd try a Policeman pie,
Or a roast M.P. for dinner;
One brave man went 'round with an axe
And tried to collect his income tax
The Dragon he smiled with fiendish glee,
And sadly murmured "R.I.P."...
Beware, take care,
Of the Green-eyed dragon with the 13 tails,
He'll feed,
With greed
On little boys, puppy dogs and big fat snails.
Then off to his lair each child he'll drag,
And each of his 13 tails he'll wag
Beware,
Take care
And creep off on tip toes.
And hurry up the stairs,
And say your prayers,
And duck your heads, your pretty curly heads,
Beneath the clothes, the clothes, the clothes.

That Dragon went down to the kitchen one day
Where the Fair Princess was baking;
He ate, by mistake, some rich plum cake
Which the Fair Princess was making,
That homemade cake, he could not digest,
He moaned and he groaned, and at last went west -
And now his ghost, with bloodshot eyes
At midnight clanks his chains and cries...
Beware, take care,
Of the Green-eyed dragon with the 13 tails,
He'll feed,
With greed
On little boys, puppy dogs and big fat snails.
Then off to his lair each child he'll drag,
And each of his 13 tails he'll wag
Beware,
Take care
And creep off on tip toes.
And hurry up the stairs,
And say your prayers,
And duck your heads, your pretty curly heads,
Beneath the clothes, the clothes, the clothes.

The Green Eyed Dragon (Wolseley Charles @rehearsals with Helen Roberts)

A dark ambient track inspired by Halloween, created with Csound. A collage of my musical past, processed in various ways to create a soundscape that is both unsettling and otherworldly. The familiar is twisted and distorted, creating a sense of unease. The result is a track that is both experimental and atmospheric.

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More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

The cover image (enlarged, type added) is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull#/media/File:3d_CT_scan_animation.gif

That image is credited to Arielinson and used thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

What the hell is this...  - disquiet0617

Last weeks morning play focussed on a drift background and gently layered live guitars with use of our individual effects processors.
Programs and effects.
-MuseScore.
-Ableton 11.
-Zoom G6, Boss GT.
-Gibson Melody Maker.
-Schecter 7 string.

Ekomananda

just trying a different style of hip hop even though I love the traditional style myself just wanted to open my horizons @BillyBanZs 
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who that King of Boom Bap

[Warsaw, Saint Anna church, 16.07.2003].
Foto: King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

J.S. Bach: 1. Prelude [Prelude and Fugue In E Minor, BWV 533 (1705 ca.)].

Please enjoy my new little Album "Heart Drive"
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Call Of The Universe | Heart Drive

2024-06-17

Just For The Moment

Every third dawn is a subtle contemporary climate-change re-telling of the Persephone myth. It draws on the creation of seasons through her survived altercation with Hades, denoting a shift in the world from eternal Spring to it only encompassing the world one third of every year. In parallel, it is now as if our world’s ‘Spring’ is being sacrificed by the climate crisis and ongoing inaction, or more often, inadequate action. We consume our planets precious finite resources as if they are lush pomegranate seeds, yet it is those same seeds that bound a Goddess of Spring and the world itself to a much darker existence.

~ Dedicated to Martina & Madeleine

Performers in this recording from its Australian premiere: Bridgette Kelsey (sop.), Jenna Choi (fl.) and Jennifer Enchelmaier (pn.).

SET TEXT: Every third dawn (2024) by Savanna Wegman
Tiered rivers pour from above 
Deeper than this terra firma 
Every shade is drunk of red 
She and the velvet, burn
the promise of rain

And warm azure falling
Here, soft libations run
And from her pomegranate veins 
Flows every third dawn

next sun, blessed 
rushing wind, cradled
a swansong, opened
As Underworlds awaken

Her body fell
From the garden of Zenith
Deep to the end of her rivers, Nadir 
Restless, beyond the breath
And the beginnings

TIMING: ~6minutes

*Commissioned by Martina Rosaria O’Connell for ChamberFest DUBLIN 2024 | RIAM.

Every third dawn received its world premiere performance by Martina Rosaria O’Connell, Sarah Van Den Heuvel-Mouchot and David Vesey at the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s 2024 ChamberFest DUBLIN, in the Whyte Recital Hall on the 01/05/2024.

It subsequently received its Australian premiere performance by Bridgette Kelsey, Jenna Choi and Jennifer Enchelmaier as part of Bridgette Kelsey’s Honours Year Recital, held in Conservatorium Theatre, Griffith University and Queensland Conservatorium of Music on the 11/112024.

Every third dawn © Robert McIntyre 2024 www.roberttmcintyre.com

Every third dawn (LIVE)(trio for soprano, flute & piano)(2024)(Bridgette Kelsey's Honours Recital)

Composer & Flautist | Juris Doctor Graduate | Changing Wilds Ensemble | Aether Duo | Wattle Fellow
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Robert McIntyre is an award-winningAustralian composer based in Melbourne. Please direct any enquiries to: rtm.composition@gmail.com

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Every third dawn (LIVE)(trio for soprano, flute & piano)(2024)(Bridgette Kelsey's Honours Recital)

Robert McIntyre – Composer

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