Today's piece is continuing some of the ideas from studies 42, 48, and 58. Like 42 (and to a lesser extent, 58), my main goal was to capture the ineffable and paradoxical feelings associated with mundanity. And, like 48, I wanted to add to this idea by minimizing musical drama wherever possible. I feel like 48 didn't actually succeed in that goal well enough, so I'm glad I revisited it.
I mostly achieved this by having very little harmonic motion. The entire piece floats in an A Lydian space. While the accompaniment does change every so often, it only moves to a different voicing of the same underlying harmony, and so I am able to avoid the inherent drama that comes from a chord change. Even if I were to move it to another consonance, a move away from the tonic invites tension by asking the question "how/when will the tonic return, if at all?". To keep the piece from ever getting stale however, I made sure that the accompaniment is busy, with a dance-like motion, and had the melody be very active.
Said melody is easily the driving force in this piece. Like study 42, it isn't quite in the same keyspace as the accompaniment, usually sitting in F# major pentatonic, which has only one more sharp than A Lydian. At the climax, though, I add the next sharp, E#, in the high register to further pull the melody sharp-wise around the circle of fifths. This new note also relieves any stagnation that may be building up from using the same few notes for so long, in a way that reminds me of Bartok's writing.
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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