Ragtime

Hello Sherry,

Nice description, and I guess it fits. I chose the title because it was hot and sticky when I sketched it. Once that was done, the right hand seemed a sort of fickle but cool breeze and the sections with the thrumming left hand like the heat. But the title was one of those things that just happens; I didn't spend any time agonizing over the choice. If it had been winter, it would probably be called something else.

I don't have anything to improvise on. But a couple of ideas popped up in my head and before I forgot them, I sketched them out. It seemed it would work as a rag-like piece, so I made it 2/4 and added the left hand. Since it needed something else, I chipped away at ideas until I had added what seemed, later, to be the "heat" sections. So I guess it was improvised in my head and finished intentionally.

Glad it was fun.

best,
mgj