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9. Rhapsody on a Theme by Beastly
Guitar: Godin LGX-SA
Tuning: Eb Standard
Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
+ Socrates stays up all night in the Symposium to argue this:
the same poet should be able to write both tragedy & comedy.
so how on earth do we dispel the emotional energy of track eight?
…we start barking!
+ This song is not a rhapsody and my gorgeous dog Beastly did not write any theme...
so why the title?
…just because it looks funny.
It’s a play, specifically, on Rachmaninoff’s song title
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Opus 43: Variation 18)
(a song I love)
and it is my hope that any person familiar with this sort of song title will wonder: "who the hell is Beastly!"
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