= fret box this is a C chord – this is the same as standard R = release bend to indicated string/fret | = not a standard bar line just used to separate musicī = bend string up to indicated pitch/fret I have included it here because it appears to beĬorrect, and my purpose is to merge all previous versions to make the mostĬomprehensive and correct tab, not necessarily an original version. Version of the tab, done by Blake Butterworth rest of it appears similar, but that’s just because it was mostly done In the constellation of Cygnus, there lurks a mysterious, invisible force: the black hole of Cygnus X-1. ‘ closes out the lyrics, and leaves listeners wondering if they’ll ever learn of the fate of the ‘Rocinante.'”-Bill Banasiewicz, Rush Visions Lyrics The ship enters the black hole, ‘spinning, whirling, descending like a spiral sea unending.’ A brief phrase, ‘To be continued. But what awaits him is not known, but it is clearly worth the risk. But the traveler heads onward in his ship, the ‘Rocinante,’ towards the heart of the dead star. The percussion work seems enough to frighten off all but the most hardy character. “The menace of the black hole is conveyed through a staccato instrumental passage. We just developed ideas with tape loops, a whole bunch of different sounds.” Terry Brown, producer, in Merely Players So we messed around and had Alex hook up his guitar through various pedals and we hooked up a bunch of digital units in the control room. To get the unique sound they wanted for the futuristic epic, they “allocated a day for special effects, which you can’t just pull out of a hat. That was all in my reading, so naturally it was reflected in the lyrics.” (Seconds, 1994). It was a whole lot of reading at that time, of being young an interested in fantasy and science fiction and alternative universes. It refreshed my idea of what the style was, and that led me into fantasy. ![]() It reintroduced me to the genre and made me realize it wasn’t all about numbers and integrated circuits. So, I was ransacking the closet where I lived and I found a lot of sci-fi. I was never a sci-fi nerd and didn’t watch Star Trek or read science fiction, but then when I was in England, I was poor and couldn’t afford to buy books. “Rocinante was Don Quixote’s horse, and also the name of the truck in Travels With Charley. The allusion to Rocinante is to Cervantes and Steinbeck.”-Robert Telleria, Merely Players ![]() The “sound and fury” allusion is to a line in Shakespeare’s MacBeth, which William Faulkner used for the title of his most famous novel. The music can be described as a dark, wrenching, heavy metal vortex. The tale is of a space ship journeying into a time warp in the black hole of Cygnus (Greek for dog), which is referred to as the Swan constellation, where scientists believe there might be one (Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan have said that life might exist there). Producer Terry Brown reads the prologue through a voice synthesizer. This puzzling result could indicate that Cygnus X-1 may have formed in an unusual type of supernova that somehow prevented the newly formed black hole from acquiring as much spin as other stellar black holes.“The song was inspired by a Time magazine article on black holes. This latter research has revealed that Cygnus X-1 is spinning very slowly. ![]() Observations with Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton are especially valuable for studying the property of the stellar wind that fuels Cygnus X-1, and determining its rate of spin. The gravitational energy release by this infalling gas powers the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1.Īlthough more than a thousand scientific articles have been published on Cygnus X-1, its status as a bright and nearby black hole continues to attract the interest of scientists seeking to understand the nature of black holes and how they affect their environment. Gas flowing away from the supergiant in a fast stellar wind is focused by the black hole, and some of this gas forms a disk that spirals into the black hole. The Cygnus X-1 system consists of a black hole with a mass about 10 times that of the Sun in a close orbit with a blue supergiant star with a mass of about 20 Suns. About a decade after its discovery, Cygnus X-1 secured a place in the history of astronomy when a combination of X-ray and optical observations led to the conclusion that it was a black hole, the first such identification. Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources.
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