Pearl's Casting - "Should I teach in a public school?"

I have another Muzoracle casting for y'all.  (Muzoracle is a storytelling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.)  This time, Pearl asked the Muzoracle if she should teach in a public school:

My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below.  The instrumentation of the piece was guided by the suits of the cards drawn.  Since the card on the left is a Minor 6th of Strings, I chose Violin as the main solo instrument.  Both the card on the middle left and far right are in the suit of Percussion so I chose the Vibraphone to accompany.  If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here: https://muzoracle.com/

This short representation of Pearl's Casting is about a minute long.  The piece is in A, since the black 12-sided Musician's Die landed on that tonal center.  I then made harmonic/melodic underdrawings that I used in the composition of the music.  Since the solfege dice landed on Me, Le, Re and Se this corresponded to the tones C, F, B, and Eb.  I then used the interval cards to elaborate on the harmony in the ascending or descending direction according to the casting:

In order to give the piece some harmonic and melodic contrast, half way through I transposed these figurations by a Minor 6th down since the casting is descending overall and the first card drawn was a Minor 6th:

If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy listening to this short chamber work I wrote to represent Pearl's casting.  Comments, suggestions, or critiques are of course, always welcome.

Using cards and dice to guide instrumentation is really creative. Choosing the violin as the main solo instrument and the vibraphone for accompaniment based on the suits drawn adds an interesting dimension to the piece.

Hey @PeterthePapercomPoser,

I think these short pieces are really wonderful, particularly with your understanding of harmonic and tone colour! I really love the vibraphone here. When combining with the often whole tone harmony it’s so mesmerising (the same word I use for my last review on your piece LoL). The violin melody just comes from the same harmonies with the vibraphone, but the feeling is so different. The second to last bar’s scale is really nice with those reflection of a 014 set. Thx for sharing!

Henry

😲 I like it!  Very creative .... and unique!

      Mark