Completed on July 20, 2023, this piece was composed for classical guitar. The video contains a MIDI representation of all three movements. In the early 2000's, I took classical guitar lessons once a week for a few months with the goal of learning a favorite piece of mine, which was Prelude from Lute Sonata no. 34 composed by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750). I learned it quickly and I even became somewhat proficient at translating notes from the treble clef to guitar fingerings. But I've since lost that skill after not having played the guitar for a couple decades. My guitar quietly rested in the corner of my bedroom closet untouched in its case collecting dust until I started composing this short piece recently.
I had a lot of fun writing this piece. It was an enjoyable challenge. I sat with my electric piano to my left, my computer in front of me, and my guitar in a guitar stand to my right. I'd improvise a phrase on the piano (which was sequenced through MIDI to my computer), manually transcribe the phrase to both treble clef and tablature using music notation software called LilyPond, and then attempt to play it on the guitar from the tablature to see if it was "playable". My lack of proficiency on the guitar had me evaluating the music far more slowly than the speed at which it was improvised. But if the fingerings seemed like they worked for me, I made the bold assumption that somebody who's actually proficient at playing the guitar can surely make it work (right?). The opening of this piece was derived from improvising on the guitar, while the remainder of the composition came from improvising on the piano.