Fall equinox is upon us, and this enters my favorite season of the year. It's not too hot, it's not too cold, it's just right for humans to live. And unlike spring, which certainly has its charms, there's food aplenty thanks to bringing in the big crop of the year. Prior to easy long-distance goods transportation allowing people to eat stuff out of season by growing it a continent or two away, now into the winter would be when most people could eat really well and fatten themselves up a bit to make it through the winter.
Musically, I started writing a melody, and then realized that I was starting to sound an awful lot like a trad-style tune in my instrumental repertoire. That led to my choice of "just use that tune, dummy", with the vocal line doing a much simpler version rather than getting quite as notey. The tune in question, entitled "Flying Home to Shelley", is actually fairly modern, written by the Canadian Paul Gitlitz, but has gotten extremely popular in trad music circles because it flows so well both harmonically and melodically. Normally, it's played with each section done twice, as you get in the middle of the recorded arrangement, but I decided to mix things up a bit.
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