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   From: pvstownsend.zyx.abc@ntlworld.com   
      
   Bill O'Meally  set the following eddies   
   spiralling through the space-time continuum:   
      
   > I often find myself trying to put a melody in my head to the songs when   
   > I read. For instance, 'Far over the Misty Mountains cold' can roughly   
   > be sung to 'O Come O Come Emmanuel'. Other times I make something up in   
   > my head.   
      
   As a long-standing classical music fan I find that for some of the verses, a   
   classical melody almost suggests itself. For example, the Ents' battle   
   song "We come, we come" sets itself to the florid middle section of "Die   
   böse Farbe" from Schubert's "Die schöne Müllerin".   
      
   By contrast, the ballad of the Ent and Entwife is in "common metre", and in   
   my mind has set itself to a melody I remember from primary school days,   
   there used for Alfred Noyes' poem "The Moon is Up".   
      
   The only verse for which I can claim to have composed a melody is for The   
   Stone Troll ("Troll sat alone on his seat of stone &c.") which runs as   
   follows for those who can understand sol-far notation.   
      
   d - d_d : d - l, s, : d - d : d -   
   Troll sat alone on his seat of stone   
   r : m - m : m - r d : m - m : m -   
   And munched and mumbled a bare old bone   
   f : l - l_l : t - t_t : s - l : t -   
   For many a year he had gnawed it near   
   m : f - f : s - l : f d -   
   For meat was hard to come by   
   l r - : t, s, - : (2 beats rest)   
   Done by! Gum by!   
   s,_s, : l, - l,_l, : m - m : r - m : f -   
   In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone   
   r : m - m : f - s : m d -   
   And meat was hard to come by.   
      
   Notes are crotchets (quarter notes) except where a dash follows, which   
   lengths them to minims (half notes), and when two notes are joined by an   
   underline, which makes them quavers (eighth-notes) taking up a single beat.   
   The forms s, l, and t, refer to the notes in the octave below middie C.   
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