Goodbye To Summer
Goodbye To Summer is a gentle and reflective bossa nova. Recorded by Amy Leonard, violin; E. Shawn Qaissaunee, guitar; Peter McCarthy, bass; and Skip Rohrich, drums.
As with a number of my pieces, this tune has an unusual structure. While it is AABA, the first A section is 11 bars (repeated), the B section is 4 bars, and the last A section is 7 bars. The entire form is 33 bars. The last A section was truncated, from 11 bars to 7, to have a lead-in for the soloist that suddenly comes out of nowhere. After this demo recording was made I found that I was not happy with the tune's bridge and I made a revision. Instead of just slowing down the tempo (as heard on the recording), the bridge now has a "slow, freely" tempo marking to give it more of a free-time feeling.
As with a number of my pieces, this tune has an unusual structure. While it is AABA, the first A section is 11 bars (repeated), the B section is 4 bars, and the last A section is 7 bars. The entire form is 33 bars. The last A section was truncated, from 11 bars to 7, to have a lead-in for the soloist that suddenly comes out of nowhere. After this demo recording was made I found that I was not happy with the tune's bridge and I made a revision. Instead of just slowing down the tempo (as heard on the recording), the bridge now has a "slow, freely" tempo marking to give it more of a free-time feeling.
