Originally written on March, 26, 2018.
One Saturday night a few years ago, my wife and I were sitting in front of the screen watching the 2007 movie August Rush. In the film, a little musical prodigy plays the song “Moondance” by Van Morrison. “Exactly right,” I thought, “this is a great song.” I went online and found an arrangement for guitar. I learned part of it but never properly finished it.
The other day, I found this arrangement again and decided it was time to finish the job. I looked up more arrangements and combined two of them into the one I aim to learn. If I finally manage to play the song decently, I will add a video recording of the performance to this article.
The song “Moondance” by Northern Irish musician Van Morrison was released in 1970 on the album of the same name. The album is considered exceptionally good and reached 65th place on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 best albums of all time. The song itself reached 224th place for the best songs of all time. Morrison has not made it a habit to boast about his work. Regarding the song “Moondance,” he has said nothing more than that it was composed on the saxophone.
