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There Was Once a Road (for piano, classical guitar, and cathedral ambience)

from There Was Once a Road (two minimalist pieces) by Bob Drake

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I selected the text (below) from one of my favourite H.P.Lovecraft stories “The Colour Out of Space”. Words containing musical notes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) told me which notes to play, and their letter count the bar lengths. Any words without these letters were ignored.

A musical note’s position in any word determined the octave – lowest towards the beginning, highest towards the end. Any adjacent notes, for example “ad” in “road”, or “face” in “surface”, were played simultaneously as a chord.

For each of the three sentences, I changed key arbitrarily: the second down a major 3rd, the last up a diminished 5th.
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'There was once a road over the hills and through the valleys, that ran straight where the blasted heath is now; but people ceased to use it and a new road was laid curving far toward the south.

Traces of the old one can still be found amidst the weeds of a returning wilderness, and some of them will doubtless linger even when half the hollows are flooded for the new reservoir.

Then the dark woods will be cut down and the blasted heath will slumber far below blue waters whose surface will mirror the sky and ripple in the sun.'
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from There Was Once a Road (two minimalist pieces), released August 13, 2023
BD - piano and guitar. Written, performed and recorded by BD in early August 2023. Cathedral ambience recorded by BD in July 2023 at l'eglise Saint-Martin, Limoux.

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