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August 2009 
The Snow Goose background
Annemieke
The first song of the Snow Goose is very short and it is called 'The Great Marsh'. It begins with birdsounds and softly the music of the keyboard sets in. In the background there is the repeating sound of female vocals and occasionally there is the highlighting of a guitar. Then the pressure goes up, the drums enter and it becomes a coherent setting for the story to take place.
... half-submerged meadowlands ending in the great saltings and mud flats and tidal pools near the restless sea. Tidal creeks and estuaries and the crooked, meandering arms of many little rivers whose mouths lap at the edge of the ocean cut through the sodden land that seems to rise and fall and breathe with the recurrence of the the daily tides. It is desolate, utterly lonely, and made lonelier by the calls and cries of the wildfowl that make their homes in the marshlands and saltings ...
1. The great marsh
2. Rhayader
3. Rhayader goes to town
4. Sanctuary
5. Fritha
6. The snow goose
7. Friendship
8. Migration
9. Rhayader alone
10. Flight of the snow goose
11. Preparation
12. Dunkirk
13. Epitaph
14. Fritha alone
15. La princesse perdue
16. The great marsh
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