This is music, it'll need a minute to load, it's me playing my own composition on a harpsichord!
I wrote it for For the great artist, Culpeo-fox (not on this site) who made this wonderful (more than that, actually! Amazing is a better word) illustration here: https://culpeo-fox.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2ltz70 Which I simply adored (and still do) and it inspired me to make something, so this piece is dedicated to and for the artist, thanks for making that!
The assertimento forgotten renaissance form, a little like a fantasy but instead of alternating between slow and fast sections to explore a theme this style uses a pre-defined form of imitation and counterpoint and cycles through contrapuntal density (number of simultaneous voices) for development, I'm using frugal fugal techniques. Now how does the music fit the image? excuse the copy-paste from another website but whatever:
"Now composer commentary, well, where do I start, at the beginning, so the theme of the assertimento, that's given to you alone on the first 7 bars (how nice of me~ the eighth bar of the theme is also where the second voice enters), is downward sloping, i.e. no climax, but not overly sad, and it does have quite the possibility to be dramatic (sing along with it acting as an opera singer for the first three entries of the motif to see what I mean). This represents what I think the situation of that l'il fox to be in that image, a slightly heavy heart which is being reminded of other days, thus superimposing sorrow, the memory of drama (echoes from the theatre) and also the chance to rejoice in nostalgia. So what I did to the piece to represent those things, at first the broken chords that come when the theme repeats the note three times are supposed to be reminiscent of the magic, of course for a few moments sadness return, but then the figure returns and breaks into the loud section that has the triplets throughout over the theme which is now displaced by only one bar, so when one pauses to re-strike the notes the other is active, of course this "wide section' is quite whimsical by virtue of virtuosity, but still sad in a way~ The theme in the bass connects it to the next section, the parts are quite "angry" here like in "why the hell did everything disappear?" but this is broken by the bass that goes into syncopation for one bar and everything shifts to major, representing a second of "at least I have the memories". Then the memories come in. The buff, a watered down sound, more mellow and "faraway" muted in a way, is an embellishment of the theme, much brisker and magical like in the poster that says "the amazing white fox of terrain", the sound here is quite "consoling" to me, and thus coming to the last element of whimsy (though slightly twisted like blurred memories) and wonder that brings the piece to a close in a key that says "all of this is dead", D minor, famously used for a requiem or two, as well as Mahler's parody funeral from his first symphony." Yeah, the grammar there wasn't exactly correct by any standards, hopefully the meaning got across~
