What I hadn’t achieved on those records was a way of connecting my motific melody with the larger tonal architecture of the whole, giving the work more structure and a feeling of deeper tension and eventually deeper resolution. It’s a method that I’ve used before to achieve thematic unity in two cyclical records of mine, “Elegiac Cycle” and “Places.” Sometimes it crops up more overtly – especially in the example above, which is a kind of turning point for the record – and sometimes less so, acting more as a motif or set of intervals that can be manipulated into something else. This idea generates the melodies of the individual pieces in a variety of ways.
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