Mr. Stafford revisits the album's mood and material here and reconvenes its cast: the saxophonist Tim Warfield, the pianist Bruce Barth, the bassist Peter Washington and the drummer Dana Hall.
The ensembles are grouped by color, mood, shape, material, and affinity (little black dresses; Gypsy exuberance; "orientalist-moderne" lamé; romantic lace; permutations of the suit) rather than by period, as they would be in a retrospective, a genre for which Chanel seems like an obvious candidate.
There is a touch of Ives here: Tchaikovskian string writing weaves through more cheerful woodwind scoring and scratchy percussion sounds, with prominent musical figures (a birdcall of a piccolo line, for example) seeming to cue sudden shifts in mood and material.
Table 2 Subjective well-being terms in surveys by type/connotation and question Term Type/connotation Survey question (example) Surveys 幸福 xingfu (happiness) Overall Evaluation/one's life is going well as relating explicitly to relationships with family and friends; mood; health; material comfort; respect Asiabarometer 2006.
Temperley opines that these works, which contain "immense variety of mood, thematic material and structural detail", are based on an extended "departure and return" form; "the more the middle section is extended, and the further it departs in key, mood and theme, from the opening idea, the more important and dramatic is the reprise when it at last comes".
In truth, this sort of mood-memory material would have been done better fifty years ago, when it would have starred Lana Turner, Rock Hudson, Sandra Dee, and John Gavin, and been directed by Douglas Sirk.
To create an artistic unity out of the wide range of moods and materials included in every novel, with often several complicated plots involving scores of characters, was made even more difficult by Dickens's writing and publishing them serially.
Yet the music seldom sounds mathematical: it is visceral in impact and playful in mood, its melodic material often recalling ragtime, jazz, and blues.
Toth and Forman capture the wispy, ethereal mood of the material, especially in their ballads about love, destiny and loneliness.
