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From: "Sandra Davis" <isolde@pstbbs.com>
To: "Crystal Simpson" <cab@scientific.com>, <minstrel@rt.com>
Subject: Re: Re: What filk *isn't* (was minstrel: Re: To All Filkers )
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:17:02 -0700
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>I think that their are two ideas here that are different.  I thought =
that >Filk referred to any piece that was new words to an old tune.   =
While >this person (I am sorry, I forgot who sent this initially) uses =
the term >Filf to refer to something else.

Perhaps it depends on where one is located geographically.

I don't do filk myself, but since it was being discussed, I looked in a =
songbook from here in An Tir, and the "filk" section has 11 songs.  Of =
these, one is a "humorous" parody of an "original" SCA themed song, and =
10 are humorous lyrics regarding the SCA set to totally modern tunes.   =
They all have "sung to the tune of" instructions.

All songs which are original works composed about or for the SCA are =
found in various other sections of the book.  It would appear that the =
An Tirian who collected these songs felt that "filk" meant new words to =
an existing tune, whether that tune was a Broadway showtune, a pop song, =
or an original composition by a Scadian about the SCA.

(In fact, looking at these 11 songs, it almost seems that part of the =
"filk" requirement is that the song be of a humorous or silly bent . . =
.)

As to putting new words to period melodies, here in An Tir we usually =
refer to that as "contrafact".  We even have an annual competition for =
it.  It was my understanding that this was the term used "in period" for =
a song consisting of new words to an existing tune.

-Isolde
Kingdom of An Tir


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