Celery's Casting - "When will I find true love?"

I am back with yet another Muzoracle casting!  This time Celery asked me when she will find true love.  The whole casting ended up pertaining to her past so perhaps she may have already found it!  (Muzoracle is a storytelling/fortune telling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.  Perhaps it may be thought of as a special musical Oracle card deck.)

My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below.  Since castings in the key of F are associated with the Heart Chakra, they accord with the emotional suit of Strings, so I decided to include a Violin and Cello, since Celery also used to play Violin as a kid.  Then, in the 2nd position we drew a Perfect 5th of Voices card, so I included prominent open 5th's in the piece and a Soprano singing Celery's question "When will I find true love?" as lyrics.  If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here:  https://muzoracle.net/

This short musical interpretation of Celery's Casting is about ~1:15 long.  Since the black 12-sided Musician's Die landed on F, the piece is in the key of F major.  I created the following melodic/harmonic underdrawing guided by the cards and dice.  The first solfege die landed on Le, and the second on Ti with a Perfect 5th card in that position allowing me to use the tones Db, E and B natural.  In order to smoothly connect to the tonic chord of F major I included the first two positions transposed down a half-step allowing me access to C, Bb, and Eb.  The Tuning card gave me the idea of changing the tuning of the piece microtonally.  So I decided to bring the tonic chord down a quarter-step momentarily.  But all the tones were brought down by a quarter-step, so the intervals used were still your basic 12TET intervals.  In order to extend the piece I also transposed the whole pattern up a half step to F# before concluding on a regular F major chord.  Also, since I extended the number of positions in the casting to a total of 5 I decided to use 5/8 for the meter of the piece.

If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading!  And I hope you enjoy listening to this short vocal chamber work I wrote to represent Celery's Casting.  Comments, critiques, suggestions, or observations are of course, always welcome.  Thanks for listening!

This could be a study on how to use slurs effectively in bowed instruments. How did you get the slurs to sound so good btw? The microtones add an interesting color to the piece and the rhythms are fun to listen to. You used 5/8 with a purpose. Also, the ending is so normal and calm compared to everything else, does this mean that love was found after a chaotic journey?

1 minute ago, chopin said:

Also, the ending is so normal and calm compared to everything else, does this mean that love was found after a chaotic journey?

Well, both the Rhythm and Tuning cards pertained to her finding an outside pattern to accord with - so perhaps, in the end she found it?