Embroidered Collage

My concept has become more complicated.  I did a little more reading today about classical musical forms and have decided that the materials I have from Casbah don't really fit a Suite.  But a Sonata would be fantastic.  Three movements, fast, slow, fast, with a potential for an overture and/or a coda.  The first movement is usually in the sonata form which is exposition, transition, then recapitualtion.  Basically you start with a motif and include a complementary version, make some variations in odd and unstable ways, then repeat the motif and complement, but with the latter dominant instead of the former.  The second movement includes simpler forms of the motif.  For the third movement I'm using a rondo, which is along the lines of ABACA.  I think I'll use carrier rods for A and echoes from the first movement for B and C.

As I read I think about how these forms can apply to the visual and am intrigued by the possibilities of the imposed limits.  I want to play with canons and fugues at some point in the future, go into more elaboration.  Just not in this piece.  And I'll probably still do a Suite at some point.  I don't listen to much music, except in the car, and this was definitely an unexpected source of pattern for me.