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“…very moving and original.” No Transmission
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“an elegant and moving piano piece that features a unique combination of pulsating rhythm and emotive expressiveness. We'll feature your music on the 59th edition of our radio show "Noitinha Groove." Rádio Armazém


Debate has long-raged over the primacy of reason or emotion in music. Aesthetic theory is divided into two camps: emotionalism on one side, formalism and contextualism on the other. Named for the mathematician Giuseppe Peano (1858 – 1932), this piece proposes a conclusion to that debate.   

Peano made outstanding contributions to the fields of logic and mathematics. Among them, the standard set of axioms describing the phenomena of natural numbers known as the Peano Axioms. Logic relies on fundamentals like "subject" and "negation" to make sense, but also and significantly, on structural elements of form, for example, proposition, argument, and conclusion. Music is more than similar. It makes sense by using fundamentals like melody, harmony, and rhythm, and formal structures like exposition, development, and recapitulation.   

Logic is built to express reason, and music—most of it anyway—expresses emotion, but words used in logic, like "negation," carry emotional meaning. Music, like logic, must make sense, but inherently, there is powerful reason in emotion. We may fall in love or become angry based on an illogical fallacy, but that is, nevertheless, the reason for our feeling. Conversely, and despite our fantasy of being capable of emotionless reason, there is powerful emotion in reason. So often, reason and logic are overtaken, if not obliterated by the far more powerful phenomenon of emotion. We would like to think we're guided by reason, but pit reason against emotion and emotion wins every time.  

In place of the usual emotional expressions used in scores to guide performance, like "con calore" (with fervor), this score uses terms of logic like "predicate" and "conclusion" to argue the issues at hand. In this piece, my conclusion to the argument comes in the final section to be played in the manner heard in a sweaty Cuban nightclub where the piano player has hands too big to fit the keys and emotions too big to be bound by reason.

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10.    If The Dragon Could Speak 4:30
         The Orchard	

Storm clouds turn the world blue-grey as Clare’s Friends ogle the ring and try it on. Clare cuts tall weeds with a machete, filled with uncertainty and doubt. A noise in the bushes frightens them. Panicked, they drop the ring and run away—except Clare who angrily jabs the bushes with her machete. The Dragon leaps out to avoid her blade. She threatens him with her machete to stay back. He’s mad she tried to stab him. She’s furious at him for scaring her Friends. They argue about who scared who. Wounded by her anger, he kneels and bows his head, then holds out her red bandana.

Astonished, she stabs the machete in the ground, takes the bandana, then remembers the wolves and realizes he saved her life. 

He slowly beats his wings, raising a breeze on which arise angelic voices saying what he cannot. Mist streams across the ground, out of which come Spirits of Nature. The clouds clear. Brilliant light streams down. The air fills with glistening silver sparkles. The Spirits swirl around her in intricate patterns. Their adoration magically lifts her into the air above them. They lower her before the kneeling Dragon and vanish into the forest. She places her hand on his shoulder, now understanding the depth of his love.

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If The Dragon Could Speak

10. If The Dragon Could Speak

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10. If The Dragon Could Speak

Jacques Bailhé

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