(As this is a response to Gideon’s Editorial ‘Context is Everything’, I highly recommend you read (and enjoy) it first. His insights and the personal expressions of the composers are well worth your time.)
Before I begin, I want to make a confession. I have no idea what the name ‘Auld Lang Syne’ means. Worse, I can’t even tell you a single line of the lyrics. Can’t name the composer. Don’t even know what language it’s from. All I know is that it’s a song traditionally (perhaps even compulsively) sung each New Year’s Eve, or at least hummed drunkenly as the balloons fall and the fireworks go off. Until I was at least fifteen years old, it didn’t even have a name as far as I was concerned. It was just ‘The New Year’s Song.’ I still don’t care to learn the lyrics, either. They don’t really matter in the context with which I associate the tune.
What the heck does this have to do with video game music – and you know it does, right? Because the context of this site is video game, anime, chiptune and other nerdly-type music…So where exactly am I going with this? (more…)
