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This work is one in a series of works which explore diatonicism. In some sections, phrases are constructed using complete diatonic scales; other sections use four-note chords which, when stacked, generate a diatonic scale. But, more important to the listener than the compositional method is the fantastical storyline indicated by the six section titles.
I. gleaming teak parquet, boundless, oceanic...
II. Bubinga buttons and ash pegs bubble in clumps
III. Newelposts and dominoes jostle with alphablocks, caespitose and shrubby
IV. Ligneous tendrils bear fattening spindle tips, shooting about dowelsprouts
V. PYRGOIDAL PEPPERMILLS AND PEGLEGS -- MAMMOTH AXEHANDLES -- TITANIC BIEDERMEIER BEDSTANDS --
VI. From the barbicans flutter deckle and chads, tickertape and timbersplinters, crepe paper billowing like hennin cloth
