Created after a spring walk on a trail through wildflower meadows in Northern California,
Spring Day Notation is a small, poetic pastorale presented in response to Medici court composer
Alessandro Striggio's magnificent Missa sopra "Ecco si beato giorno", that U.C. Berkeley
Professor Davitt Moroney discovered in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
in 2005
after a twenty year search and first conducted in 2007 for the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall
and then conducted in Berkeley in 2008 and 2012, where I first heard it live.
A structural response to the greater "beautiful day" of "Ecco si beato giorno",
Spring Day Notation was written as a bouquet to the musician who wrote this beautiful
Mass and the musician who recreated it.
A miniature, made in tribute to one of the most extraordinary music experiences of my life,
Spring Day Notation could be called a generative hypertext array because rather than
the traditional line-by-line approach of generative poetry, it uses a polyphonic approach
of moving nodes back and forth across the screen.
