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Trevor Herbert

Yes, it certainly does. Right, now that's the basic piece we are going to work with, but I did ask you to give me a couple of sort of variations on this little piece. What have you come up with?

George Fenton

Well, um, I tried various things, I thought it might be quite interesting to play it and change the note values of the melody slightly, and by doing so sort of pull the melody ahead of the bar-line at certain points so that it would sound like this.

In a way perhaps a bit more lyrical than... previously, and I was thinking in terms of, if I was writing it for another instrument other than the piano, then perhaps if it was played by a solo wind instrument such as a flute or an oboe or something like that, that it would be, it would be probably more effective if there was a little bit more rhythmic interest in the tune itself.

Trevor Herbert

That's right, and the syncopations provide that, don't they.

George Fenton

Yes, that's right, the synco... and so not only is there a bit of tension in the harmony with the chords, but also, because things are moving at a slightly different moment, that gives it a bit of extra interest as well.