11 years ago this week, we lost our dog "Tigger" (or "Wiggy" as we often called her).  She lived a good long life for a dog her size and my main regret was that for the latter half of her life I could only be home to visit her on occasion since I was still in college/grad school  during that time.  I missed her quite a bit whenever I was away from home and during my 20s when I was heavily invested in writing string quartets, I composed this "Quartet for a Doggo" which I always listen to around this time of year since she was, as you might have guessed, my main source of inspiration.  See if you can spot the various pupper themes -- there are motifs for barking (Woof-woof! Woof!!), begging, playing with toys, and my favorite -- bolting out the door to chase after squirrels and run around joyfully in the backyard.   Side note: I actually stole the kernel for that last one from a Mendelssohn string quintet.  Somehow I don't think he would have disapproved.  Hope you enjoy...in all its wonderful computer synthesized MIDI glory ;-)

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