[Bards] Ansteorra Needs Your Help

Genie Barrett maggegene at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 11:56:22 PST 2009


I might have time to write something not related to school by then.  I
accept.

Magge MacPherson
Bard!

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Beth <celtic_wolff at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Oh yeah,
>
> Lord Lucas, if you are interested I will also send you the song I wrote for
> the last war anthem competition. You are more than welcome to sing it at
> Gulf War or wherever you find it inspirational.
>
> Elanor
>
>
> "Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon your way.
> Never trust a stranger-friend; No one knows how it will end.
> As you're pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise.
> Handsome they may be, and kind, Gay, or charming never mind!
> Now, as then, 'tis simple truth...
> Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth!"
>
> --- On Fri, 12/11/09, David Reynolds <lucas_mor_mac_raghnaill at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> From: David Reynolds <lucas_mor_mac_raghnaill at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Bards] Ansteorra Needs Your Help
> To: "Bards" <bards at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 3:21 AM
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> Please cross post to local lists as necessary.
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> The armies of the known world march onto the fields of Gulf Wars.  In
> unison, the soldiers of each army sing the songs of their respective
> kingdoms.  Onto the field marches the army of Ansteorra.  Toward the front,
> someone is yelling "WHO ARE WE?"  ANSTEORRA!!!!  Some measure back goes up
> the latest verse of "Tiny Bubbles".  The Household in the middle seems to be
> talking about the wild events at the revel the night before.....  A chaotic,
> eclectic barrage of soldiers.  Not exactly the most imposing imagery as we
> enter....
>
>
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> The army of Ansteorra needs songs.  Songs that can be sung while marching
> into battle.  Ansteorra needs your help.
>
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> I would like to offer a competition to the plethora of talented song
> writers that we have in this kingdom.  The winner will receive a fabulous
> prize (consisting of everything I can get my hands on to make you feel
> adequately rewarded) and eternal glory.  Though the piece does not have to
> be period in style, since we are  group of people recreating the ideals of
> the middle ages, it would be nice.  However, the most important aspects of
> the song are that...
>
>
>
> 1) It is in the key of "army".  i.e.  it sounds just as good being
> chanted/shouted by a group of men and women with minimal talent as it does
> being sung by the most talented vocalist.
>
> 2) It rouses the spirits of any Ansteorran warrior who hears it.
>
> 3) The easier to memorize the better.
>
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> The winner will be chosen by the brave Ansteorran warriors attending
> Estrella War to support our cousins from Calontir on the week of February
> 8th - 15th.  If we have enough entrants, I will have to narrow it down to
> the finalists prior to Estrella.  As such, please have submission to me no
> later than February 1, 2010.
>
>
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> How do you submit?  Any way you can.  If you can record a version and send
> it electronically, GREAT.  If you can send the lyrics and the musical
> arrangement, GREAT.  If you want to record a tape and mail it to me, GREAT!
> (Let me know and I will give you my address).  If you need to call me and
> have me learn the tune over the phone and then let me record it onto my
> Blackberry, GREAT!  If you can attend Estrella and sing it to the army
> personally, GREAT (and I will probably personally nominate you for an
> award).  I want to make this as easy on you as possible.  The important
> thing is that we get songs for our nobel defenders to sing as they march
> into battle, thus allowing them to embody the glory of Ansteorra.
>
>
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> Every day that I live the dream, I am amazed at the talent of the people
> who share this dream with me.  I know that you will not let me down.  I know
> that you will not let our soldiers down.  I know that you will not let the
> dream down.  If the SCA is a lithograph of a painting, imitating the real
> image, the bards the are the added paint which make it seem authentic (yes,
> I can be cheesy).
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> In service,
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> Lord Lucas mor mac Raghnaill
>
> Premier Bard of Ansteorra
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