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Downloads paid by credit card or paypal are available for immediate download. A preview of this piece is available. A Late Summer Aubade
Composer: Jay Gordon
Published by Little Boat Music
10 pages
includes performance notes
Minneapolis Idyll is essentially a morning song of sorts and a rumination on landscape. Joy is mixed with introspection. There is use of a pentatonic scale and a Verdi-inspired tremolo section, too.
Though music in the end is just a fetching (hopefully) collection of tones, I was attempting some tone painting with
Minneapolis Idyll at least to get me through the composing process. I pictured a late August/early September morning when the first signs of fall appear: the light is delicate and orangey, lakes are giving off vapors from the cooling nights and all things have a smoky tinge.
Jay Gordon
Excelsior, Minnesota
