Intermezzo

INTERMEZZO: A Paratactic Pause

Vivace, vivace. Accelerando.
There is a song in my heart and there is a song in my mind and there is a song in my soul. Its melody tickles my ears, and it pops up at every tragedy, and it strikes with no warning. Accelerando! Crashing cymbals and rumbling trombones and tense string quartets, and the Hammond Organ playing piano and forte and the music crescendos into a gross wall of sound and it overwhelms me, it overtakes me—I am lost within it and I lose myself too and I cry and I grieve and I die and the music keeps playing. ACCELERANDO! The music never stops. The music has crashes and rumbles and tensions and ups and downs and louds and softs and pianissimos and fortissimos and it keeps going for ever and ever and ever and…

Non troppo. Lentamente.

And I keep going too. There is always another crescendo to build up to.

And I’m willing to wait for it…

Definitions

Accelerando: gradually faster—used as a direction in music.
Forte: a musical tone or passage played loudly—used as a direction in music.
Fortissimo: very loud—used especially as a direction in music
Grosso: big, large, heavy, thick
Intermezzo: a usually brief interlude or diversion. A short light piece between the acts of a serious drama or opera.
Lentamente: “slowly” in Italian.
Non troppo: without excess—used to qualify a direction in music
Piano: in a soft or quiet manner—used as a direction in music.
Pianissimo: very softly—used as a direction in music
Vivace: in a brisk spirited manner—used as a direction in music.

HAMMOND AND HAMILTON
Non-Stop
Legacy
Unfinished Symphony
Intermezzo
Wait for It
Hurricane
The Eye
Memento Mori (Warning: suicide)
High Storm/The Unimaginable
La Fine/Pain=Creativity