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Music for anime

Inspired by Haibane Renmei

Kana's Toy

 (1.3 megabytes)
I imagined that Kana finds and repairs an old music box. When she plays it for the other Old Home residents, Kuu and then Nemu dance to the jangly music.

Reading by Halo-Light

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Picture a haibane with a book in a rocking chair late at night while everyone else is asleep. (This is part of the Haibane Suite, below.)

Haibane Suite

 (mp3; 7.6 megabytes)

I: Dream
II: Off to Work
III: Saturday Evening at the Abandoned Factory
IV: Reading by Halo-Light
V: Talking It Over
VI: Night

The melody in the third section is "Washerwoman's Bransle" from Arbeau's Orchesography, first published in 1589. My arrangement is in the style of a much later period. If you'd like to hear the tune without the sound effects, it's here: Washerwoman's Bransle (mp3; 1.8 megabytes).
The rest of the tunes are my own. I reserve the right to tinker with the music -- I'm not entirely happy with the first and last sections and may eventually rewrite them. For the time being, though, I'm going to let it stand as it is while I work on other disasters.
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