Conundrum

"Be Still My Soul" is coming along nicely, but there's a hitch.

Part of my process when I'm starting a new piece is to hit Record on my workstation, and just improv a bit on the theme rattling around in my head.  Sometimes this isn't necessary if the piece is fully developed in my head, but for this piece I just had the theme, a conception of the feel I wanted, and a little of the chord structure.  Well, I've ended up with two treatments I really like.  This has happened before, and I've just combined them into a single motif or used them for different parts of the composition.  This time, I like both of them enough that I don't want to change them by combining them, and their styles are just different enough that it would probably end up sounding bad if I put them in a single composition.

I smell bonus track.

 

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