Pan's Preludes V

Amanda Riddell
May 20, 2024
1 min read

The opening vamp is actually my variation on Adam Guettel's vamp from the opening song of The Light In The Piazza (Statues and Stories). I figured that out on guitar. However, that's not a truly original vamp. That's a variation on the vamp from Beautiful in Sunday in the Park With George. Seriously, go to the scores and it's very obvious. Guettel uses a #11 that isn't in Sunday while I bend the rhythm so that it's not all in 4/4.

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