Composing Today

3 February 2007

Cleaned up some more and worked on what was to be the second ritornello. Unfortunately, or fortunately and with a little help from some of my canonic utilities, I seemed to have composed what will be the end of the piece. It is a glorious, almost ecstatic gloss on the horn material that ebbs and flows in tempo, in harmony, in microtonal character that is quite lovely to me. Perhaps this section I’ve just written will serve as an ecstatic summation after the difficulties of the piece. “Que Vida!” I’ve decided to stop work on it completely, save it as something else in order that it will flow properly when I am able to return to it. In the meantime, I think I have to give the second ritornello another chance – I guess it is not a bad thing.