Baguio departure once removed - a lament

[ted]

Here is my December contribution.

[quantum]

Beautiful piece, Ted!  There are some wonderful melodies in here.

It sounded like a number of vignettes of Baguio life, surrounded by the complex and conflicting thoughts of needing to depart.  Scalar passages seemed to be a recurring thematic element in the music. 

[ted]

Thanks for listening Neil, pleased you like it. Your associations are actually pretty close to the truth, as usual, and in fact reveal aspects of it I had not consciously realised. I do not, of course, use scalar passages and other rapid finger work for display purposes, a function I have always regarded as infantile. After all, anybody with a normally functioning body can cultivate any amount of finger dexterity with sufficient time and diligent practice. I use extremely rapid finger work as a means of producing what amounts to orchestral effect by thinking in groups instead of notes. I listen to a large amount of music aside from that of the piano and I suppose I have an unconscious tendency to replicate what I hear.