Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 02:58:08 GMT
Mary Creasey (creasey@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: keshlam@prodigy.com wrote:
: >
: > Only the slightest quibble, Gary: Most religious songs aren't filk, and
: > most filk songs aren't religious, but there's no particular reason a
: > particular song couldn't be both. (I don't have a good example to
: > cite offhand, but I'm sure someone must have written a Deryni hymn
: > if nothing else.)
: "Wind's Four Quarters", which is a sung prayer to the Shina'in Goddess
: of Mercedes Lackey's "Vows & Honor" stories (the Tarma and Kethry tales,
: which are my personal favorites). The incident (without the lyrics) is
: in the story, "Sword-Sworn", in _Sword & Sorceress #3 (which SHOULD have
: been the first chapter of _Oathbound).
: Also, "Soldier, Ask Not", the Friendly hymn from the Dorsai stories of
: Gordon Dickson.
I notice that none of these are religious songs *to the author*. That is,
Dickson isn't a Friendly, I don't suppose Lackey worships the Shina'in
Goddess, and so on. In another thread -- about the murder of Adam Walks
(in Moonlight? Drat, I've forgotten the name he was known by) something
more ... sincere, I guess ... seems to be referred to:
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:44:07
From: ioseph@primenet.com
> He knew some great songs, old and new, and rewrote lyrics to some old
> favorites to capture pagan meanings in that classic bard style we see
> in our community.
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If Adam was actually a pagan, I'd call that something like "primary
religious filk".
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