Somebody to Love (Reprise) from 'Music for a Story-Telling'

Written in 1991 (music), 1994 and 2012 (words) / Recorded in 1994

Basically, as far as the music concerns, my conceptual work titled Music for a Story-Telling is a collection of re-workings of my past compositions written in 1991; either works I wrote for a band that couldn’t exist long enough to perform it, or works for a students’ theatrical project that failed to feature the whole works I wrote for them when it was performed. This tune was the first thing I wrote for the latter occasion, as its main theme, and its acoustic variation was used in the actual theatrical performance.

For converting past materials to the said conceptual work, I simply re-used these things without making any changes in neither structure nor arrangement: the un-used main theme as the main theme whilst it’s acoustic variation as Reprise of the main theme.

As for the tune’s function in the conceptual work, both the main theme and this Reprise are designed to accommodate Kelp the protagonist’s monologues, in which he expresses his personal desires in general. In Reprise, it is more focused on his sexual desire due to the situation where he is facing to a young and attractive village girl. The author also added seemingly wise but almost meaningless words to the protagonist’s wooing in order to enhance this character’s shallow but deceptive and canning character.