Music Composer: Edwin Lucchesi

This is an original song I wrote for Renaissance Lute in 2023. The inspiration came from listening to soundtracks by Japanese video game composers such as Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu.

The development of the piece was born by imagining a story linked to the ancient beliefs of the hawthorn, in particular that linked to sleep.

Its name, in Icelandic, means "sleeping thorn" and according to Norse myths Odin used a thorn of this plant to put Brunhilde into an enchanted sleep.

Even in the Celtic legends linked to Avalon it is said that Viviana, with a spell, made Merlin fall asleep under a hawthorn tree, where perhaps he is still sleeping, waiting to wake up in good times for his return.

In the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, Princess Rosaspina falls into an enchanted sleep that lasts a hundred years, after being pricked by a spindle, which in ancient times was made from hawthorn wood.

From these stories and ancient traditions, the subtle power of the hawthorn shines through to induce a magical sleep that leads to detachment from everyday reality and to finding oneself in otherworldly dimensions, unknown to the human mind which, alert and crowded with thoughts, is far from peace and from silence.

The Lute I used to compose this piece has 15 strings with a very warm tone. Compared to the Muro Box, the pitch of each 8 open courses was much lower, from D2 to G4.

So what I tried to develop in this rearrangement was a study on the timbral properties of the 3 octaves available to the Muro Box, in particular:

The highest tones (A4-C6) to evoke a sensation of a memory bordering on half-sleep.

The medium warm tones (C3-C4) of musical accompaniment evoke a sensation of a dream.

The structure is divided into 4 parts developing this idea to make transition to/from a dreamy/fairy sleep world.

In the middle part I tried to change the tempo applying a hemiola to shifting from binary tempo of the “real, waking world" to a more danceable "fairy" ternary tempo composition in its climax before return again to the starter tempo

【More about the Arranger】
Edwin Lucchesi
Muro Box Music Library Account: Alaghast
I’m a guitarist, audiovisual artist, music producer and educator that experiments sounds with new media

Site: https://www.edwinlucchesi.com/


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