Meditation & Dance

A gentle piece to induce reminiscence and memories of childhood, commissioned by harpist Margaret Watson for her mother Carol's eightieth birthday celebrations in November 2019.

Using the English extended musical alphabet by which every letter of the alphabet is assigned a note, letter R becomes note D, O becomes A and L becomes E, thus the name Carol becomes the musical motif CADAE which is heard at the beginning and end of the work and which provides the basis for a free flow of musical thought.