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For those that may be interested, here's a more complete description of what I intend in this programmatic work:
An elegy-of-sorts that I intend to convey the hopelessness one can reach in life, the movement opens with funereal piano solo introducing the two themes. I actually drew these fragments from the hymn-tunes ST. ELIZABETH and HALLELUJAH, WHAT A SAVIOR. Except for the piano solo, these fragments appear in inversion, a technique which may prove useful to portray the spiritual "reversal" later in the piece. Two central "seeking" sections develop the two themes with short melodies that quickly build and crash down unsatisfied. Framing these sections, a wandering version of the first theme depicts an underlying, encroaching despair, and the movement concludes with the funeral dirge of the piano ending in listless frustration. The other two movements will convey the journey from such despair to hope.
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