Spoon River Anthology

Instrumentation: Piano Solo
Date Completed: March 2014
Movements: I. Cathedral (The Hill)
II. Minerva Jones
III. Mary McNeely
IV. Lucinda Matlock
V. The Unknown
VI. Jenny M'Grew
View Score for Movements 1-4
Notes: I wrote this collection of six short (and I mean really short) pieces for a local teacher putting together a play/poetry recitation of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. She asked me for a brief soundtrack, and so I scribbled up these understated, forlorn melodies. Each "movement" (1-2 minutes long) corresponds with one poem. Unfortunately, the play was cancelled, but the music was not.