Today's piece is a study on storytelling. Of course, the history of music is full of storytelling, but it's not something I do often with my writing. So, today the goal was to express a real world idea through music, rather than my usual absolute music.
I chose to illustrate a kind of fear/anxiety in this study (rather than a specific story). The main metaphor here is in the melody part, which centres around E. My goal was to have this note be uncomfortable over the accompaniment, yet the melodic line shows fear and hesitation to develop anywhere, particularly upwards. Thus, this melody seems to be "paralyzed" in this uncomfortable state.
The left hand creates an aleatoric, turbluent texture for the melody, designed to be "structurally un-sound", so that even if the melody played consonantly with it, it would never sound at ease. The MIDI doesn't do a great job for the turbulent effect, even after I spent a while manually adjusting the phrasing, but I think the score conveys the idea clearly enough.
As always, these pieces are welcome for anyone and everyone to play! All I ask is that you share it with me, because I'd love to hear it done by live players!
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