Antonio Martinez

Alternative title

Rostock: Ragtime für die Bußfertige Seele

Composer

Antonio Martinez

Publisher

Antonio Martinez

Genre

Jazz / Ragtime

Instrumentation

Piano

Scored for

Solo

Type of score

For a single performer

Key

D major

Duration

4'17"

Difficulty

Difficult

Year of composition

2016

Description
This is the thirtieth place in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red Light District." This piece is set at Rostock's Am Bahnhof Bramow.

The main character in this piece is a 27-year old graduate student studying abroad in Germany. This person is famous by close college acquaintances for having a healthy affinity with the modern female. This student, when not studying to be a certified ophthalmologist, spent his leisurely activity with women whenever possible. Adventures included tutoring sessions with sorority sisters at Rostock University, flirting with food vendors at Kröpeliner Straße, and even enjoying a brief date with a 36-year old widow at an evening at Warnemünde.

The main character was having fun while hanging out with female fans at the Ostseestadion when the person fell into a deep trance. During the dream, the main character found himself in a dream and at a distance noticed a flaxen-hair, robust woman in royal cerulean garments. The woman had a resemblance similar to that from Eugene Delacroix's "Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi." This woman ushered one simple phrase to the main character before she asked the main character to visit Am Bahnhof Bramow: "Condemn not, lest you be condemned for eternity."

With guided spirit, the main character awoke and enjoyed a rapid power walk toward Eroscenter, where the test came to fruition: that of Pericope Adulterae, but with a chaste female worker harassed by 16 ultraconservative thugs. The main character, seeing a new Bible and scimitar, grabbed the items and held the items high enough at their vicinity. The thugs, seeing the items with the backdrop of a bright light, disperse. The woman felt relieved that the main character came to her rescue and the two people enjoyed their services into the early morning.

This piece has a format of 4AABBA4CCDDABB. George Frederick Handel's "Harmonious Blacksmith" and Frederic Chopin's "Prelude" (Op. 28 No.15, also known as "Raindrops") were the basis for this piece, the latter whose influence is found in the second section. Also not that the fourth section is an 8-bar section.

Upload date

23.06.2016