Searching for an Identity
Eindhoven: Ragtime for the Ethereal Soul, Op.2 No.9
SM-000223110
- Alternative title
- Eindhoven: Ragtime voor de Etherische Ziel
- Composer
- Antonio Martinez
- Publisher
- Antonio Martinez
- Genre
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Jazz / Ragtime
- Instrumentation
- Piano
- Scored for
- Solo
- Type of score
- For a single performer
- Duration
- 4'22"
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Year of composition
- 2015
Description
This melody is the ninth destination in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red Light District." This piece occurs at Eindhoven's Baekelandplein.
The main character in this piece is a 30-year old physical trainer that has been searching for a significant other for nine years. This person won a worldwide contest where the prize is meeting a woman from another country. This person always sought for a substantial person, but many times proved unsuccessful.
That was until arriving at Eindhoven, where the main character began his vacation by offering free bodybuilding seminars to many students from the Eindhoven University of Technology. In addition to daily walks, the main character attended a sporting symposium on youth health and concussions outside Philip Stadium. Following the seminar, one of the speakers, whose wife is also a marriage counselor, informed the main character that the blind date would meet the person at Baekelandplein.
After a lengthy walk, dusk turned into nightfall as the main character visited Baekelandplein and began to noticed the bind date, who happened to be the street's most beautiful and eligible woman: a busty blonde and mother of quadruplets. She offered the main character a chance to date, but the main character became hesitant, rejected the blind date, and walked miles away.
That was until the main character saw a vision of chronic loneliness and its imminent death due to it. Not wanting to waste this opportunity, the main character searched for the woman and ultimately found her. The person apologized for his cowardly move, and the two people atoned as both danced at Baekelandplein into the night.
This piece has a format of 4AABBA4CC4DDBB. Scott Joplin's "Original Rags" and "A Breeze from Alabama" were the basis for this piece, as evident in the D and B sections, respectively.