GumDrop's Casting - "If I go into social work, what will my career look like?"

This time I come to you with my 13th casting, which I've done on Friday the 13th!  GumDrop asked me "If I go into social work, what will my career look like?"  (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 the casting was in the key of A (because the black musician's die landed on A), it pertained to the Third Eye Chakra which is associated with woodwinds.  Because of this I picked English Horn.  Because the first card drawn was a Perfect 4th of Brass, I also chose French Horn.  Then, the card in the 2nd position was a Major 3rd of Percussion, so I chose Piano (also because GumDrop once played Piano).  If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here: https://muzoracle.net/

This short musical representation of GumDrop's Casting is about ~2 minutes long.  I created the following melodic/harmonic underdrawing guided by the cards and the dice.  I used the first few solfege dice as a skeleton for the main melody.  To obtain extra material, I transposed the whole pattern up a perfect 4th to D, since the perfect 4th is a very prominent feature of the casting.  Since the piece is in A and associated with the Third Eye Chakra, I started the piece with the English Horn.  The Percussion card comes 2nd so I included the Piano as accompaniment.  Then I finally added the French Horn.  I also prominently use parallel 4ths throughout the piece which gives it a certain Asiatic/Impressionistic flavor.  

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

Unique and very calming. The crescendo and decrescendo throughout gives the piece an interesting sense of grounded emotional instability.

Hi,  I really don't quite understand the theory underlying the composition ... (although as a retired professor of social work, clinician, and school administrator ... retired); if you have any questions about a career in social work feel please to ask me.

Now about the music ... my only observation is the pairing of the English Horn with the French Horn.  I think matching dynamics would be a bit difficult since the timbre and projection of the instruments are quite different especially in the lower and upper registers. 

The work is quite pleasant to listen to .... and flows quite nicely.

Mark