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<li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Schelling_Game.html> Schelling Game</a></b><iclass=small> by Rivka Fleischman & Maia Werbos</i><li><b><ahref=../../songs/Battle_Hymn_Of_The_Rationalist_Community/gen/> Battle Hymn Of The Rationalist Community</a></b><iclass=small> by Scott Alexandar (Lyrics)</i> ◦ A triumphant celebration of truth and humanity
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<li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Solstice_Then_And_Now.html> Solstice, Then And Now</a></b><iclass=small> by Maia Werbos</i><li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Litany_of_Gendlin.html> Litany of Gendlin</a></b><iclass=small> by Eugene Gendlin</i><li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Litany_of_Tarski.html> Litany of Tarski</a></b><iclass=small> by Alfred Tarski (?)</i> -- If the sky is blue...<li><b><ahref=../../songs/X_Days_of_X_Risk/gen/> X Days of X Risk</a></b><iclass=small> by Raymond Arnold</i> ◦ Six (or more) ways the world could end
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<li><b><ahref=../../songs/The_Circle/gen/> The Circle</a></b><iclass=small> by Taylor Smith</i> ◦ Expanding the moral circle
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<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Bold_Orion/gen/> Bold Orion</a></b><iclass=small> by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell</i> ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter
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<li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Internal_Coordination.html> Internal Coordination</a></b><iclass=small> by Rivka Fleischman</i><li><b><ahref=../../songs/Thats_Coordination/gen/> That's Coordination</a></b> ◦ A riff on That's Cooperation from Sesame Street.
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<h2> Twilight</h2>
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<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Song_of_the_Artesian_Water/gen/> Song Of The Artesian Water</a></b><iclass=small> by Banjo Paterson and Anna Tchetchekine</i> ◦ A song about human ingenuity in the face of challenges.
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<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Hymn_to_the_Breaking_Strain/gen/> Hymn to the Breaking Strain</a></b><iclass=small> by Rudyard Kipling</i> ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
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<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Seikilos_Epitaph/gen/> Seikilos Epitaph</a></b> ◦ The oldest piece of music in the world.
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<h2> Night</h2>
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<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Songs_Stay_Sung/gen/> Songs Stay Sung</a></b><iclass=small> by Zoe Mulford & Windborne, with edits by the Solstice team</i>
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<li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Litany_of_Tarski.html> Litany of Tarski</a></b><iclass=small> by Alfred Tarski (?)</i> -- If the world will end in the next three years...<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Beneath_Midwinter_Midnight/gen/> Beneath Midwinter Midnight</a></b><iclass=small> by Raymond Arnold</i> ◦ A lament of winter, contrasting with repeated "we are not alone"s
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<li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Minute_of_Silence.html> Minute of Silence</a></b></ul>
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<h2> Dawn</h2>
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<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Brighter_Than_Today/gen/> Brighter Than Today</a></b><iclass=small> by Raymond Arnold</i> ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
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<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Endless_Light/gen/> Endless Lights</a></b><iclass=small> by Raymond Arnold</i> ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities
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<li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/One_Thousand_Years_Adapted.html> One Thousand Years</a></b><iclass=small> by Jacob Kopczynski, adapted by Max Koren</i><li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Litany_of_Tarski.html> Litany of Tarski</a></b><iclass=small> by Alfred Tarski (?)</i> -- If we can predict the future a thousand years in advance...<li><b><ahref=../../songs/The_GTF/gen/> The Great Transhumanist Future</a></b> ◦ Lyrics by Hannah “Alicorn” Blume, to the tune of “Big Rock Candy Mountain” by Harry McClintock
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<li><b><ahref=../../speeches/gen/Litany_of_Tarski.html> Litany of Tarski</a></b><iclass=small> by Alfred Tarski (?)</i> -- Meta...<li><b><ahref=../../songs/Landsailor/gen/> Landsailor</a></b><iclass=small> by Vienna Teng</i> ◦ A salute to industrialization and its fruits
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[A recording of this from the 2020 North American Distributed Chorus](https://www.jefftk.com/solstice-2020/06-bold-orion--2020-12-20-010858.mp3) is available.
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There's also a recording [from the DC Solstice 2022 band](../Bold_Orion_DC_2022.mp3).
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Some accuracy notes on Bold Orion from DC Solstice 2024:
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> The next song, Bold Orion, is in part about how winter will kill you if you’re unprepared, which is a central theme of Solstice. Some notes on the accuracy of the song, since that is important to us. It is actually written from the perspective of early fall, “when the days are getting shorter”-- at that time of year, you may see Orion towards the east at midnight. At other times of year, such as the winter solstice, it appears at a different time and location during the night.
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> And there has been one change to the lyrics this year for accuracy. Orion is not in fact older than the continents; although stars last a very long time, the patterns of stars in our sky do not. Constellations shift on a timescale of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. So rather than “kings and continents and all,” this year, we are singing “kings and commonwealths and all.”
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<h2id="a-mythologically-inspired-ode-to-orion-the-hunter">A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter</h2>
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<p>The constellation of Orion dominates the winter sky, and is one of the few that can be reliably seen in a modern, light-polluted world.</p>
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<p><ahref="https://www.jefftk.com/solstice-2020/06-bold-orion--2020-12-20-010858.mp3">A recording of this from the 2020 North American Distributed Chorus</a> is available.</p>
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<p>There's also a recording <ahref="../Bold_Orion_DC_2022.mp3">from the DC Solstice 2022 band</a>.</p>
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<p>There’s also a recording <ahref="../Bold_Orion_DC_2022.mp3">from the DC Solstice 2022 band</a>.</p>
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<p>Some accuracy notes on Bold Orion from DC Solstice 2024:</p>
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<p>The next song, Bold Orion, is in part about how winter will kill you if you’re unprepared, which is a central theme of Solstice. Some notes on the accuracy of the song, since that is important to us. It is actually written from the perspective of early fall, “when the days are getting shorter”– at that time of year, you may see Orion towards the east at midnight. At other times of year, such as the winter solstice, it appears at a different time and location during the night.</p>
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<p>And there has been one change to the lyrics this year for accuracy. Orion is not in fact older than the continents; although stars last a very long time, the patterns of stars in our sky do not. Constellations shift on a timescale of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. So rather than “kings and continents and all,” this year, we are singing “kings and commonwealths and all.”</p>
For DC Solstice 2024, we introduced this song with:
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> This next song is included not only for its content, but for the fact that it currently exists at all.
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> In the first century CE, a man named Seikilos (see-ki-los) placed a stone in the ground to mark the grave of a woman named Euterpe (yu-ter-pay). The stone bore this inscription: "I am a tombstone, I am an image. Seikilos placed me here as a long-lasting sign of deathless remembrance." Below this was written a song. Dedicated to Euterpe. This is the Seikilos Epitaph, and it is the oldest fully intact piece of music in the world.
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There is [a recording](../Seikilos_Epitaph_DC_2024.mp3) and [sheet music](../Seikilos_Epitaph.pdf) available.
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