Searching for an Identity
Karlsruhe: Ragtime for the Passionate Soul, Op.2 No.29
SM-000249075
- Alternative title
- Karlsruhe: Ragtime für die Leidenschaftlich Seele
- Composer
- Antonio Martinez
- Publisher
- Antonio Martinez
- Genre
-
Jazz / Ragtime
- Instrumentation
- Piano
- Scored for
- Solo
- Type of score
- For a single performer
- Duration
- 3'54"
- Difficulty
- Very difficult
- Year of composition
- 2016
Description
This is the twenty-ninth place in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red Light District." This piece is set at Karlsruhe's Brunnenstrasse.
The main character in this piece is a 30-year old English teacher and poet. This person was on sabbatical as he spent his time across central Europe. He was spending several days in Karlsruhe catching up on poetry. So far, the main character had written many poems of love and romance. These poems occur in unique places, including a marriage proposal at the marker of the 49th parallel and even lost love reunited outside the Federal Constitutional Court.
As the person was walking past Wildparkstadion, the main character began to feel an empty heart. He had spend so much time writing poems of love, but yet the main character had never thought about a love of his own. So with guided spirit, the main character took a power walk and headed toward Brunnenstrasse.
There, the main character noticed a woman whose working career has included stops at red-light districts in eight cities, including Hamburg. In these instances, the woman can only remember negative thoughts as her suitors were only happy to be busy with their hands. However, she saw something in the main character that no one else had: a sincere passion for love and life. The main character felt this same way too, and the two people found love that very night.
This piece has a format of 4AABBCC4ADD. Scott Joplin's "Silver Swan Rag" and James Scott's "The Suffragette Waltz" were the basis for this piece. In addition, the second section is a 24-bar section.