Travelogue, Part II: Waiting

Travelogue Part II "Waiting"

Here’s the second movement, Waiting, of Travelogue. The title refers to many different kinds of waiting during travel, many of which are less than pleasant. I wrote some (possibly cryptic) quasi-poetric instructions to the pianist, in lieu of expression markings:

Play as a fugue.

State with precise rhythms.

Gradually emerge

from the fugue state

afflicting your performance.

This movement is not a fugue, but at times resembles one. Ideally, its harmonies would help to invoke impressions of a psychological fugue state, but the MP3 below, computer-generated and un-tweaked as it is, does not achieve this goal:

This is the first piece on this blog that’s more than one page long. See the entire score here.

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