Searching for an Identity
Bremerhaven: Ragtime for the Lovelorn Soul, Op.2 No.22
SM-000237430
- Alternative title
- Bremerhaven: Ragtime für die Liebeskranke Seele
- 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
- 4'17"
- Difficulty
- Very difficult
- Year of composition
- 2015
Description
This melody is the twenty-second destination in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red-Light District." This piece occurs at Bremerhaven's Lessingstraße.
The main character in this piece is a 30-year old coffee shop owner. This person has often spent life alone and rarely had aspirations of finding a female figure. For just over a week, this person spent the first time in Germany visiting Bremerhaven's numerous places. The journey began with a visit to the German Maritime Museum, and most days would feature a two-hour ride along Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof. Wherever this person went, the main character always found numerous women desperate to be a significant female figure.
The main character attended a promotion-relegation playoff at Zollinlandstadion when the person notices the stadium was nearly 81percent female audience, as the stadium had hosted a "Ladies Afternoon" promotion. After that game, the main character dispersed quickly and began his strenuous power walk, hoping to avoid another female figure. The main character had thwarted any chance of a female role model, even as the person approached Lessingstraße as a blazing orange sunset came.
Many more female working locals heard about the main character's visit to Bremerhaven and offered a chance to be the main character's "female figure." But the main character rejected all requests until one person came. This person was a flaxen-hair, blue-eyed woman of Scandinavian origin. The eyes of this woman were so powerful that it cracked the hardened heart. Shocked by this move, the main character found the "female figure" that seemed at first impossible.
This piece had a format of 4AABBCCDDAEE. The Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" and "Castle & Fortress Theme" from "Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island" were the basis for the piece, the latter whose influence comes in the fourth section. Note that this piece utilizes six scales: suspended scale, whole-tone scale, half-diminished scale, Hungarian minor scale, minor pentatonic, and major pentatonic scales.