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Jewelz Casting - "Should I go into teaching?"

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For my 14th casting Jewelz asked the Muzoracle "Should I go into teaching?"  (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.)

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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.  Then, two more woodwinds cards were dealt so I picked the following three woodwinds to include in the piece:  Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon (Jewelz played Clarinet).  Then there was a card in the suit of voices in the 3rd position so I included an Alto in the piece.  And finally in the 4th position we dealt a triad of brass card so I used three trumpets.  If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here: https://muzoracle.net/

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This short musical representation of Jewelz Casting is about ~1:30 minutes long.  I created the following melodic/harmonic underdrawing guided by the cards and the dice.  I started the main melody with Flute and Clarinet on Bb and a rising chromatic line suggested by the dice.  This was accompanied by an Alto voice singing B octaves and finally with three trumpets playing D major triads.  

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

A high tension piece that wants to resolve but ultimately fails in doing so. We almost get there at 0:20. It makes me wonder if you don't really want to go into teaching, or if you have anxiety over the prospect! Overall, I'd say one of your more interesting castings. Honestly, I was surprised that you resolved this at the end.

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