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Continuing the series on music in the Star Wars Novel I’m going to have a title for any day now…
So. We run out of perfect videos, and must now begin to use our imaginations.
The deal is, a lot of times, in the Resistance, you don’t get a ton of transmissions, so you’re sometimes strapped for entertainment material. And in those times, you have to fall back, in time-honored tradition, on whoever you know who can sing or play an instrument.
On the current base, that is mostly Poe, who knows Every Song, and Dr. Kalonia (the medic who in the movie totally knows that the way to handle an injured Wookiee is a lot of flattery). She can play a kind of harp thing, and she is one of those slightly shrill ladies whose voice really cuts through, but she can carry a tune and I have known so many women like her, the backbone and bane of many a folk circle and trad seisun. I speak with love, because I will probably be her, someday, if I ever go to a circle again. (I am good but I am piercing. Whoops.)
So, this recording is perhaps how Dr. Kalonia would sound if her voice were perhaps a little bit sweeter, but is otherwise pretty dead-on. She loves the old patriotic favorites.
This is about half of the inspiration for the song “For The Republic” that Poe sings in the story. Only I actually really love this song, along with Blake’s Jerusalem, in the genre of patriotic songs that are actually sort of challenging? And the Republic song Poe sings is not challenging, it is trite. So that’s why this is only about half of the inspiration.
Perhaps this song is actually a precursor to For The Republic, and dates back to an earlier conflict, and so the sentiment is somehow just a little less cheesy. I have yet to find a good one to inspire the rest of the way. Trite and cheesy patriotic songs that are still kind of moving are hard to come by.
Continuing the series on music in the Star Wars Novel I’m going to have a title for any day now…
So. We run out of perfect videos, and must now begin to use our imaginations.
The deal is, a lot of times, in the Resistance, you don’t get a ton of transmissions, so you’re sometimes strapped for entertainment material. And in those times, you have to fall back, in time-honored tradition, on whoever you know who can sing or play an instrument.
On the current base, that is mostly Poe, who knows Every Song, and Dr. Kalonia (the medic who in the movie totally knows that the way to handle an injured Wookiee is a lot of flattery). She can play a kind of harp thing, and she is one of those slightly shrill ladies whose voice really cuts through, but she can carry a tune and I have known so many women like her, the backbone and bane of many a folk circle and trad seisun. I speak with love, because I will probably be her, someday, if I ever go to a circle again. (I am good but I am piercing. Whoops.)
So, this recording is perhaps how Dr. Kalonia would sound if her voice were perhaps a little bit sweeter, but is otherwise pretty dead-on. She loves the old patriotic favorites.
This is about half of the inspiration for the song “For The Republic” that Poe sings in the story. Only I actually really love this song, along with Blake’s Jerusalem, in the genre of patriotic songs that are actually sort of challenging? And the Republic song Poe sings is not challenging, it is trite. So that’s why this is only about half of the inspiration.
Perhaps this song is actually a precursor to For The Republic, and dates back to an earlier conflict, and so the sentiment is somehow just a little less cheesy. I have yet to find a good one to inspire the rest of the way. Trite and cheesy patriotic songs that are still kind of moving are hard to come by.
