Barrow-themed Christmas Greetings

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Ibrin, this is really beautiful music! You have a gift of inventing melodies that sound archetypically familiar, always seeming to remind me of something I can't quite lay my finger on, without ever being in any way derivative - like memories from a dream, if that makes sense. Thanks for sharing this!

Thank you very much *blush*. I know that like any musician, I've had strong influences (probably the strongest being Vaughn Willams, Debussy, and Hovhaness, not to mention folk music and Gregorian chant), but I have tried to find my own voice and not be a mere echo of someone else's. Saying it's "like memories from a dream" is perhaps very accurate. All my life, I've had a sort of "soundtrack" running through my head, tunes that my brain came up with on its own, but that I was only occasionally able to get out for others to hear (usually when I could write lyrics and make a song of it). I was tough even when I studied composition in college, because by that time, I was oriented more toward voice than orchestra. Having a computer program that gave me an orchestra at my fingertips was a godsend, and I'm happy that I've been able to share it with others.

I hope everyone's Christmas was merry, and that the coming New Year will be blessed for all.