Originally Posted By: Pat Marr
Hiroshi,

I absolutely LOVE your song! And it makes me happy for your sake that now nobody can subtract any value from it by comparing it to another song!

What you have accomplished here is masterful in every way, and it deserves to be regarded as the highly original song that it is!

For whatever it's worth, the phenomenon of incorporating passages we've heard in other songs is very very common and easy to do! Especially given the fact that you aren't Christian and didn't listen to all of the Christmas carols every year, you certainly wouldn't have memorized the source. It is a testimony to your musical memory that you retained a passage that you may have heard only once! I am very impressed!

I like your new melody even better than the other one! Thank you for your gracious reply to my original post! It is always refreshing to me when two minds communicate and agree!

Thanks for taking time to craft and share such an amazingly creative composition with the forum!

Pat,

Thank you very much for your kind message. I cannot express how grateful I am for your pointing out the resemblance between two songs. Without it, there would be no way for me to know it, and it would bring me the terrible situation where many of the listeners of my song would frowns while listening to my song and I would never dream of that. It also gave me the chance to rewrite the song.

When I recall the process to create the melody and also consider the fact I had listened the carol only once according to the play count by iTunes, now I think it more reasonable to interpret the cause as the most natural and beautiful passages for me accidentally resemble those of the Christmas carol rather than to interpret as I used the passages of the carol unconciously.

I am glad that you like the revised version. After I completed the original version I listened to it so many times. I thought, therefore, the revised version was not as good as the original initially. As I listened to it repeatedlly, however, I now think it is better.

Thank you again for your kindness,

Hiroshi