Quintessence

"Quintessence" is defined as the pure and concentrated essence of a substance. Quintessence is an episodic work that utilizes the extrapolation of a single musical cell to create the impetus for the entire piece. In this piece, the note G could be considered the primordial ooze from which the first organism will emerge. As in nature, variation and mutation give rise to increasingly more diverse offspring as the work progresses through its five episodes.