Now that it is December, I thought this piece of music would be appropriate. It is yet another solo guitar “miniature” which is a form I have used a lot. Trying to compress a small “world” of ideas concisely into a few minutes of music has always been an appealing concept for me.
This piece was loosely inspired by Chopin’s “Winter Wind” Etude. Chromatic descending and ascending passages seem to suggest winter winds, so that was the starting point. (This is one of the few pieces I recorded on my jumbo body Taylor and the new, and hardly played, heavy gauge strings do squeak a little but that just adds ambiance.)
Harmonically, we start on a cold blue C Sharp Major, float through some more ambiguous territory, and end on a fairly remote but “sunny” A Major. That, at least, is how my synesthesia feels it.
Another December side note:
My birthday is December 8, and as a boy in Catholic school for 12 years, I never had to attend school on my birthday because December 8 is the feast day of the “Immaculate Conception.” This has given a “golden” glow to my memories of early birthdays.
Be kind.
Love,
Reyn