Today I present my original composition, DEATH AND REMEMBRANCE.  I completed this piece in 1999 and scored it for piano.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:

DEATH AND REMEMBRANCE is my response to the death of my family dog, Ruggy.  As anyone blessed by the experience of growing up with a dog knows, they are like siblings.  In my case, a sibling who figures into some of my most treasured memories.  I lived my halcyon days away as almost a modern-day Tom Sawyer, roaming the vast square mileage behind my home with that little ragged, homely, darling dog by my side.  What bliss that was!

As the title suggests, the piece is about death, but also life--the carefree life I once knew.  Written for piano, it is rather extensive.  I treated the work as something like a long diary entry.  My pain was great, so I had to keep working on the piece until my grief was spent.

Listen at SoundClick
Listen at MP3Unsigned

DEATH AND REMEMBRANCE, Copyright©1999 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde. All rights reserved