As the title suggests, this piece is a rumination upon time. It is set in three movements, with the first being a retrospect, the second being a contemporary, and the third being a prospect. Each movement explores a lens through which we interpret time, utilizing various thematic ideas to reflect said image. It was performed in Schroeder Hall of Sonoma State University in May of 2017.
        The second movement is a development of a system of music theory I have created in order to construct pleasurable symmetrical pieces. The piece is a direct mirror of itself, converging on a Ger⁶   chord at its midsection. Anyone can write half a piece and then mirror it, but will it sound good? Likely not, because the experience of music completely depends on where you’re coming from and where you’re going; a reversed song does not grant you the same experience just in opposite order. The simplest way of demonstrating this is through the deceptive cadence V-iv⁶  . The progression is dominant to tonic harmony, though obviously a more decorated tonic than we usually see. But what happens if we reverse these chords? iv⁶  -V is a sub-dominant to dominant movement. We experience completely different things in the reversal of these two chords. It is in identifying and capturing the essence of such anomalies in the mirror image that a pleasurable symmetrical piece can be created.