Welcome to My Tune Page!

"And its whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason..."

If only composing nice bagpipe tunes were this easy...

Failte, Welcome, Bienvenu !

Humans have an innate desire and need to create. It is part of what makes us human. Once we have created an artistic work, there is usually an immense feeling of satisfaction and resolution- a feeling that we have "made a statement". Sometimes it is almost impossible to say what that statement is, but nonetheless we usually experience a feeling of satisfaction and completion.

Some artists have likened the process of creating to giving birth, as if the work they have created is their offspring. Composing music is, for those who engage in it, a tremendously satisfying artistic release. Whether "classical" music, or garage-band rock & roll, creating a musical work is a way humans have of expressing the often inexpressible.

During times of great euphoria, and times of national trauma, musicians will compose and/or perform music that attempts to describe their feelings in a way that they feel cannot be expressed in any other way.

---an excerpt from an article by Gary Ewer, 2001.

 

We Shall Meet Again: this tune just popped into my head one Friday afternoon as my wife was heading up North to teach her Highland Dancing students. It’s kind of a sad tune of parting but the title offers hope that one will be reunited with that person they care so much about. Effective when played with big sad eyes at the front door of your dwelling as your better half drives away.

 

 

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