Enjoy this performance of Kitiara’s Song. It originally appeared in Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, released in 1987. Buy Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: https://amzn.to/39TClwb
Vocals performed by ethelaldrete.
About Kitiara’s Song
There is very little the same in this piece, as there is little that remains constant from moment to moment in Kit’s personality. It is meant to be sung unaccompanied, the beginning and ending almost a subconscious croon. The middle, less throaty because it comes into higher range, is a paean to the power Kitiara wants for herself. This feeling of power grows continuously through the first part of the song, as does Kit’s plotting to gain power through most of both trilogies. The last part echoes the beginning, dropping back into chest voice, and takes on a calculating, secretive feeling in the last two phrases. The marks that look like apostrophes just above the score are break marks, and are very important ro phrasing and character.
This piece is composed as a stark contrast to Tanis’s poem found at the beginning of Volume 3 of Chronicles, Dragons of Spring Dawning. Kit takes Tanis for granted. Her strength, greed, arrogance, and hedonistic nature react almost violently against his emotional turmoil, strength, cunning, and considerable leadership abilities. Kitiara gains energy and power from these differences.
Most important in this piece is clarity. Kitiara has a very good idea of what she wants and where she needs to be. The song reflects this vision in precise notes. The timing, however, need not be that exact. This song should run through the head and over the vocal chords like thoughts, which are seldom in time with one another.
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