This sketch uses Æolic meters, and takes its form from the choral ode.

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As I was working on this, Peer remarked You’re trying to be very Messiaen with this piece. It’s a fair cop, I suppose, although it didn’t help that he started playing l‘Echange while I was still sketching it out. He’s now playing Philip Glass, so let’s see what the next piece is like…!

Download Advent Sketches : XX (pdf)

Number eighteen is based around a flourish:

Download Advent Sketches : XVIII (pdf)

Here is sketch XVII, based on a bell-like motif in open fifths:

Download Advent Sketches : XVII (pdf)

Here’s another one:

Download Advent Sketches : XVI (pdf)

Sketch XIV contained a couple of small passages of contrary motion (in the middle register); sketch XV takes this technique as its basis:

Download Advent Sketches : XV (pdf)

Here is the fourteenth sketch:

Download Advent Sketches : XIV (pdf)

Today’s third sketch:

Download Advent Sketches : XIII (pdf)

Sketch number 12:

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Another sketch!

Download Advent Sketches : XI (pdf)