An Unfinished Score (22 page)

Acknowledgments

I am deeply fortunate to be edited by Fred Ramey, represented by Terra Chalberg, and published by Unbridled Books—intelligent and generous people committed to the text entire.

Though I alone am responsible for any factual or musical errors contained in this work of fiction, two books informed my work:
The Lives of the Great Composers
by Harold C. Schonberg and
What to Listen for in Music
by Aaron Copeland. I also gleaned information browsing such music composition websites as
Music Theory Online: A Journal of Criticism, Commentary, Research, and Scholarship
and
The Harmonic Wheel
. Sitting in on a master class given by the St. Lawrence String Quartet was invaluable to my research, as was observing sessions of the Conductors Institute of South Carolina.

My greatest debts are to the composers and performers of the many recordings and concerts that fueled my writing—and to David Bajo and Esme Bajo for their companionship and saving humor.

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

I. Doloroso

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

II. Agitato

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-one

Twenty-two

Twenty-three

III. Appassionato

Twenty-four

Twenty-five

Twenty-six

Twenty-seven

Twenty-eight

Twenty-nine

Thirty

Thirty-one

Thirty-two

Coda

Acknowledgments