RTE 1 — 6.30 Monday — Secrets of the Stones

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tiompan Apr 15, 2009 11:02:21
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Don't buy the McCafferty comet/climate change = religion/monument change etc theory though .
Certainly food for thought. I actually thought it's quite plausible, but (obviously) completely unprovable. Something changed something. It's as good as any other theory.

However, all the talk was of passage tombs. Nothing about wedge, portal and court tombs, which predate the big passage tombs. Why did those style go out of fashion?

They go for the jugular . Swirly bits of rock art and the sun shining up passages where it usually doesn't . Slightly less of the harp / flute & synth pad than usual , although I kept expecting to see the Titanic bursting through the Newgrange facade .

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gjrk Apr 15, 2009 11:26:27
Replying to tiompan

It was the Sligo piece at the beginning that got me. All I could think of was Charlton Heston (as Moses) striding out from behind a tomb, with far-away eyes and his hair a different colour. Is there a term for that in music, you know, a sustained "crescendo?" of devotional-type sounds?

I found the Tara section interesting though.