Progress with Name Music piece in memory of Bette Caddis
Yesterday I was successful at warding off various potential distractions from emails, workmen painting the outside of our house, and scheduling changes for various appointments for myself and Bear! Instead I played violin early in the morning, and found myself (surprisingly) able to compose quickly and easily, the flow was happening! What came out was in a waltz rhythm, and in the key of E major (using the D# was an idea that had come to me a day or two previous, arising out of learning to play a piece that Peter Blue wrote for me, called Reel de Mer, which somehow got my fingers going with staying in a straight major key), and suddenly the whole piece made sense. I like how the piece seems so much more cheerful and spry, which is how I think of Bette, and also seems extroverted and sociable. But an odd little phrase showed up in the middle that I recognized from somewhere, an interval that evoked singing somehow. It took a little bit for me to realize that this snippet came from ...