The Full Moon Sings to Me in the Night
This was a piece for a school project in which we were to use 20th century techniques. This piece has interesting piano voicings (quartal, cluster, polychordal, and extended tertian), diatonic planing, jazz chords, octitonic (half-whole) scales, modes (dorian, lydian, lydian dominant, mixolydian, locrian, superlocrian), polyrhythms (4 against 3), asymmetric meters (8/8 in a grouping of 3-3-2), linear chromatic progression, a chromatic mediant (minor third) transposition, inverted melodies, in an A B C B' A' form, and even a chopsticks non sequitur. On a night when the moon was full and very close to the horizon, with a creepy cloud across it, I suddenly heard the opening piano chords on a quartal Cmaj7(#11) voicing. The piece wrote itself in a moment of inspiration and is one of my favorite pieces so far.