Hot take:
Béla Bartók's Cantata Profana is furry music.
You cannot convince me otherwise.
@ziphi I'd actually never heard of it nor listened to it before now, and I really love it so far, the complexity of all this lack of harmony layering together to build something a lot more harmonious. I have no clue how he did this and I kinda want to listen to it while stoned out of my gourd at some point. Also I can see how it'd be a logical segue from Carmina Burana.
@ziphi I zipped off to Wikipedia as soon as you mentioned it (and I'd put it on) because I wanted to know the context. I actually like how the story comes that close to the real tragedy that would happen in a lot of folklore but goes "naw, he doesn't shoot 'em, they just wind up staying stags is all."
@Leucrotta Bartók is a favorite of mine. Cantata Profana takes its story from a Romanian carol, in which a hunter’s nine sons cross an enchanted bridge while following deer tracks and all turn into stags. The hunter pleads with them to return, but they refuse to go back to their old lives and threaten to kill the hunter if he does not leave.