Elegy Amoresque

Instrumentation: 2 pianos
Duration: 6.5 minutes
Completion date: 2015
Performance by Savannah Du, Helena Ma

Elegy Amoresque is the beginning of my journey to explore and understand love (I began writing this work in 2011). The initial jazzy chords, played in solemn calmness, are accompanied soon by an improvisatory melody. As the two piano lines ebb and flow with each other, I see two individuals becoming acquainted with each other for the first time. As the music develops, the moving middle section of the elegy conveys the delicate, hopeful undertones found in early love, climaxing ultimately in a chime-like forte. The piece is interestingly titled an elegy (serious reflection or lamentation of a death), but captures more of the hopeful elements of life's reflection. This elegy is a piece dedicated to reflection on early love for those in the later stages of life. In death, there is renewed life. In death, there is love.