Episode 18: Story songs

Good Librations episode 18 Story Songs

Come along on a music adventure as we discover why story and song have long been in perfect harmony.

What was the first ever song about? Who wrote a middle-ages musical version of the 1-star hotel yelp review? What do Tenacious D, the Little Mermaid and Stravinsky have in common? And, oh look. It's the Odyssey. Again.

Join in, and sing along if you know the words.

Find out all this and more in this month's episode of Good Librations.

 

Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

Cobalt Blue by Matthew Reilly

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

Cobalt Blue by Matthew Reilly  Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas

Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

History of Music

Best Stories behind Classical Music

Berlioz and Storytelling in Classical music

Hurrian Hymn Listen 

Song of Sekilos listen

Hua’er songs of China

Jazz and Blues            

 

Books/written works:

  • Clancy of the Overflow by Banjo Patterson
  • The Odyssey by Homer

 

Movies/shows:

  • Mary Poppins
  • Harry Potter
  • Men in Black
  • Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?
  • Star Trek
  • Star Wars
  • Chariots of Fire
  • Forrest Gump
  • E.T.
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Game of Thrones
  • The Mandalorian

 

Songs/artists:

  • Flute Concerto no. 2 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • About Damn Time by Lizzo
  • Dafne by Jacopo Peri
  • Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
  • The Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg
  • While my Guitar Gently Weeps by Prince
  • Symphony no. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton
  • Nobody Knows When You’re Down and Out by Bessie Smith
  • Violin Sonata in G Minor by Giuseppe Tartini
  • Crossroad Blues by Robert Johnson
  • Poor Unfortunate Souls by Pat Carroll
  • Hey Little Songbird by Anais Mitchell
  • Say My Name by Eddie Perfect
  • Wonderful by Stephen Schwartz
  • The Devil Went Down to Georgia by The Charlie Daniel’s Band
  • The Black Rider album by Tom Waites
  • Conversations with the Devil by Ray Wylie Hubbard
  • The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest by Bob Dylan
  • Spanish Train by Chris de Burgh
  • Faust et Helene by Boulanger
  • Faust by Randy Newman
  • The Soldier’s Tale by Igor Stravinsky
  • Driving South by The Stone Roses
  • Gretchen am Spinnrade or Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel by Franz Schubert
  • Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby by Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, and Gillian Welch
  • Hurricane by Bob Dylan
  • Harper Valley PTA by Jeannie C. Riley
  • A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash
  • El Paso by Marty Robbins
  • Charlie Brown by The Coasters
  • Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
  • I Was Only Nineteen by Redgum
  • Took the Children Away by Archie Roach
  • January 26 by A.B. Original
  • Space Oddity by David Bowie
  • Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits
  • We Have Survived by No Fixed Address
  • The Wall album by Pink Floyd
  • Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
  • Jeremy by Pearl Jam
  • 4.44 by Jay Z
  • Fancy by Reba McEntire
  • Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
  • River by Joni Mitchell
  • American Pie by Don Maclean
  • Stan by Eminem
  • Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran
  • Elastic Heart by Sia
  • In the Woods Somewhere by Hozier
  • Da Art of Storytelling by OutKast
  • This is America by Childish Gambino
  • The Tale of Jenny and Screech by Ren
  • Violet’s Tale by Ren
  • Copperhead Road by Steve Earle
  • Sink the Bismarck by Johnny Horton
  • The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton
  • Star Trucker by Slim Dusty

Shelf-obsessed (further reading and listening)

  • Australian folk songs and bush ballads: over 100 traditional and popular songs celebrating Australia edited by Warren Fahey
  • Tell me why: the story of my life and my music by Archie Roach
  • To kill a troubadour by Martin Walker
  • She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Dolly Parton
  • Yakanarra song book: about our place in Walmajarri and English; words by Jessie Wamarla Moora, Mary Purnjurr Vanbee and the children of Yakanarra Community School with Chris Aitken and Alison Lester; illustrations by the children from the Yakanarra Community School with Alison Lester
  • Born to run by Bruce Springsteen
  • Folklore album by Taylor Swift
  • Celebration: 15 Years Of Music And Magic 15 years of music & magic album by Celtic Woman
  • Wild seeds album by Seeker Lover Keeper
  • Tea for the Tillerman album by Cat Stevens

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

   

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