The rites of Lughnassadh are named, unsurprisingly, after the Irish deity Lugh. Among Lugh's greatest deeds was his role in the overthrow of a tyrannical king named Bres. This led to a longstanding theme of Lughnassadh as the celebration of the sometimes necessary work of the warrior in protecting their people from the evils of the world. And in this time of humans trying to reassert their value while various overlords try to replace them with robots, it seemed like we ought to look at the stories around this battle for inspiration on how we can insist on our own value as creative beings who are part of the network of life.
Musically, this is a simple march. I pitched it where I did to take advantage of my low notes that give it the sort of power I wanted, but if you find those too low by all means consider transposing up a bit. And while my squeezebox works well enough live, it doesn't have the same kind of bass oomph that I wanted, hence the piano underneath it all. One subtlety to watch out for is that the dotted-eight sixteenth rhythm is not quite the same as a quarter and an eighth triplet pattern: That short note is supposed to be just a bit shorter, which makes it sound to my ears at least a bit "stickier". Another minor thing I threw in at the very end was using the D major rather than D minor chord - that's a fun final surprise that goes back to the 1500s at least that brings a little bit of hope to the story, and is also the kind of fun that a robot wouldn't think to do.
All works are copyright by yours truly, but may be distributed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0. That means, in short, you can use them yourself and your grove, and play the song to your heart's content both in private and in public, but must give credit where credit is due, and if you're planning on selling something involving this song we need to talk about that first.
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