From the composer:

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"It occurred to me that I'd never written a song in 5/4, but I was up for the challenge. The idea, for me, was to write in an irregular meter without it calling attention to itself - in other words, I wanted listeners to get lost in and enjoy the music to the point where they were not really thinking about the time signature.

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"I drew inspiration from Romantic period composers such as Chopin, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn - which is most apparent in the dual layers in the right hand (where the top half plays the melody, and the bottom  half accompanies with arpeggios)."

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