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[message]‘How Strange’ is a minor-key piece with vaguely Middle-Eastern overtones. It has a modal melody that fits over a repetitive rhythmic figure. Once the trick is acquired it is easy enough, but the player may find it frustrating at first. After the first section, the second subject is a serpentine melody over a shifted rhythmic figure; the third section is a major-key variation on the first, and then the piece returns to its first subject to end. The title is stolen from the song ‘Every Time We Say Goodbye’ – the lyric says ‘There’s no love-song finer/but how strange the change from major to minor’...
Listen to Andrew Williams playing ‘How Strange’: