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Tune Hell Frozen Over

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N.B. MIDI is a terrible way to learn a fiddle tune!

I'm not clever enough to make the MIDI play it properly, but the D.C and FINE markings are supposed to let you know that the last time through the tune you should finish up by playing the first bar again.

I wrote this tune to represent the devil in a theatre piece I was involved in. My idea was to combine a Scandiavian tonality with a Balkan kind of rhythm. It may have come out more as pastiche, but I think it worked pretty well in the play.

Recently I recorded a slightly sketchy version available on a little EP with another tune I wrote around the same time.

© 1992 Ben Paley

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N:I wrote this tune to represent the devil in a theatre piece I was involved in. My idea was to
N:combine a Scandiavian tonality with a Balkan kind of rhythm. It may have come out more as
N:pastiche, but I think it worked pretty well in the play.
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D:Ben Paley, "Hell Frozen Over", 2022
Z:Ben Paley <ben.paley@benpaley.com>
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