December

December conveys a story of waiting. Whether you’re waiting for a particular moment to happen in your life, or waiting for someone special, once it arrives it is always spectacular and rewarding in some way. Musically, this piece isn’t very challenging. The challenge for the musicians is to convey the text as passionately as they can. Musicians and audience members alike may take different meaning from the text, which was its intended purpose. The reason I chose the key of Gb Major is based on theoretical philosophy. C Major is known as the Key of Purity; Gb falls directly in the middle of the C Major octave. While Gb/F# is the tri-tone of C and considered the “devil in music”, I believe that in this key specifically, it is surrounded by the purity of C Major, representing pure love.