Alex Selby
Mr. Martin
English 2 H
13 April 2021
Improvisation for The Hobbit
The reason I decided to perform an improvised piece to represent the Hobbit was because the entire adventure itself was unplanned for our protagonist. The first chapter of the book and the inciting incident is “An Unexpected Party”. Nothing about this book was planned for Bilbo Baggins, he just had to roll with the punches. The beginning theme of the piece is meant to represent the call to adventure which got Bilbo to stray from Hobbiton in the first place. Without
it, there would be no adventure, and without the opening theme there would be no song. After that, the opening theme kept getting contorted and it went through a metamorphosis of many variations on that opening, fantasy-esque theme. This is like how the expectations of Bilbo for how the adventure will go get changed and darkened as he lives through it. In the middle of the piece, I referenced Dies Irae, the most referenced piece of music ever, which represents death and wrath, of which there was plenty in this story. Finally, I steered back toward the opening theme to resolve the piece, just like how in the end of The Hobbit, Bilbo comes back to his village, now enlightened, and has finished his “hero’s journey” by coming back into the known world.
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