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Music for Fairies, Witches and Magic

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Music for fairies, witches and magic

Music for fairies, witches and magic

For anyone who may use music for meditation / ritual or whatver, here are a few suggestions for Classical pieces that may be useful. Not an exhaustive list by any means but a start … Oh and BTW they are all great for Halloween too … Give yer Samhain a bit of claSSical class 🙂

  • Malcolm Arnold – Tam O’Shanter Overture, Op. 51
  • J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue
  • Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
  • Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
  • Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: IV. Marcheau supplice (March to the Scaffold)
  • George Whitefield Chadwick – Symphonic Sketches: III. Hobgoblin
  • Debussy – solo piano works eg. Nocturne Sirenes
  • Paule Dukas – L’Apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)
  • Antonin Dvorak – The Noon Witch B. 196, Op. 108
  • Feldman – Coptic Light
  • Cesar Franck – Le chasseur maudit (The Accursed Hunter)
  • James (Seumas) Gagne – Cantata For Beltain;
  • James (Seumas) Gagne Oratorio on the Charge of the Goddess.
  • Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Op. 54: No. 3. March of the Trolls
  • Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King
  • Anatol Konstantinovich Liadov – Baba Yaga, Op. 56
  • Anatol Konstantinovich Liadov – Kikimora, Op. 63
  • Franz Liszt: Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke ‘Mephisto Waltz No. 1’
  • Franz Liszt – Totentanz
  • Edward MacDowell – 2 Fantasiestucke, Op. 17: No. 2. Hexentanz (Witches Dance)
  • Carl Orff – Carmina Burana
  • Sergei Rachmaninov – The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
  • Camille Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre, Op. 40
  • Erik Satie – Gymnopaedia
  • Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
  • Mozart – Lacrimosa (from Requiem K. 626)
  • Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky – St. John’s Night on Bald
  • Mountain: “A Night on the Bare Mountain” (arr. N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
  • Verdi – Requiem
  • Hildegard von Bingen – The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen
  • Wagner – Der Valkyrie (The Ring Cycle)
  • Widor – Toccata
  • John Williams – The Five Saced Trees A Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (Inspired by Robert Graves’ The White Goddess’)
  • Lost in Meditation: Meditative Gregorian Chants, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
  • Chant and Chant II – Gregorian Chant; The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos
  • Gregorian Chants: The Best of the Benedictine Monks of St. Michael’s

Corn Rigs an’ Barley Rigs

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Composed, arranged and recorded by Paul Giovanni and Magnet -‘Corn Rigs’ from the Wicker Man (1973) to celebrate the ‘Eve of Lammas based on Robert Burns’ Song, It was upon a Lammas night

It was upon a Lammas night,
When the corn rigs are bonie,
Beneath the moon’s unclouded light,
I held awa to Annie,
The time flew by, wi’ tentless heed,
Till ‘tween the late and early,
Wi’ sma’ persuasion she agreed,
To see me thro’ the barley.

The sky was blue, the wind was still,
The moon was shining clearly,
I set her down, wi’ right good will,
Amang the rigs o’ barley
I ken’t her heart was a’ my ain,
I lov’d her most sincerely,
I kiss’d her owre and owre again,
Amang the rigs o’ barley

I I loc’d her in my fond embrace,
Her heart was beating rarely,
My blessings on that happy place,
Amang the rigs o’ barley!
But by that moon and stars so bright,
That shone that hour so clearly!
She ay shall bless that happy night,
Amang the rigs o’ barley.

I hae been blythe wi’ Comrades dear,
I hae been merry drinking,
I hae been joufu’ gath’rin gear,
I hae been happy thinking
But a’ the pleasures e’er I saw,
Tho’ three times doubl’d fairly,
That happy night was worth the a’
Amang the rigs o’ barley.

CHORUS

Corn rigs an’ barley rigs,
An’ corn rigs are bonie,
I’ll ne’er forget that happy night,
Amang the rigs wi’ Annie.

Black Mass / Lucifer by Mort Garson (1971)

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Here’s an oddity … A collection of Moog compositions by Mort Garson. Black Mass/Lucifer is Garson’s 1971 exploration of the dark arts, an all-instrumental soundtrack for a horror film that never existed. Garson conjures up a sinister, minor-key atmosphere on tracks with titles like “Incubus,” “Witch Trial,” and “The Evil Eye”. Enjoy!  

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Stanley Allison “Stan” Rogers

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Stanley Allison “Stan” Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983)  Canadian folk musician and songwriter.   http://www.nightfall-25.com/pages/extras/press-releases/cbc/1982-03-11.html

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