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T:Hell Frozen Over
L:1/8
C:© 1992 Ben Paley
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.
N:Recently I recorded a slightly sketchy version on an eponymous EP available from my Bandcamp
N:page here: benpaley-fiddle.bandcamp.com
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D:Ben Paley, "Hell Frozen Over", 2022
Z:Ben Paley <ben.paley@benpaley.com>
K:A Lydian
P:A
[A,2E2][E2A2] !fine!|: dee d2 c2B | dcBc AEC | [A,2E2][E2A2] |
dee d2 c2B | Acec Bdfd |1 e3 B3 [A,2E2][E2A2] :|
P:B
| e3 e2g fdBd | e3 e2g fdBG |
A3 A2c BGEG | A3 A2c BGEG | A3 A3 !D.C.!|]