Some years back, my talented friend Jenne Van Antwerpen
and I played a daily game of musical "tit-for-tat"
whereby she would pen a few measures of an original
composition and I, a few others. At some point, we felt
the piece complete and would rework the score into a
finished piece. At other times, Jenne would produce the
melodic portion of a flute line to which I would
produce the harmonic counterpart. We would again go
back-and-forth, switching roles until at some point, we
felt the piece was ...(+)
Some years back, my talented friend Jenne Van Antwerpen
and I played a daily game of musical "tit-for-tat"
whereby she would pen a few measures of an original
composition and I, a few others. At some point, we felt
the piece complete and would rework the score into a
finished piece. At other times, Jenne would produce the
melodic portion of a flute line to which I would
produce the harmonic counterpart. We would again go
back-and-forth, switching roles until at some point, we
felt the piece was complete (or we got tired!). This is
one such cooperative effort named "Mood Swings"; named
for the heterophonic shift in mood: For all the moods
that you may have during the year, happy, melancholic,
playful ....