From the composer:

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"This idea of this piece was sparked by wanting to play with suspensions and resolutions. I wondered what it would sound like if just as one note resolved, another moved to create another suspension, and on and on.

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"Because of the sense of yearning the suspensions create, and the liturgical sound it evokes to me, I named it 'Praeteritum,' which is Latin for 'the past.'"