The work 'The Rooster' was composed during my Master Studies at Corfu, actually in a funny way. It was not a part of the Master. On a spring day I was reading a book when I started playing the tune melody of section B on the piano. The A part was added finaly as an introduction I thereafter added the chords in arpegios way.
It was a time I had to move off town 8km far from Old Fortress
where was the Music Department. Somedays I had to walk by foot in a highway avenue to get there. So there was plenty of time observing nature and movement of the world, that always creates me something new.
As I was composing the work, repeating each section to get it together, I was experiencing a funny surprise. When the phrase was edding in Dominant or Tonic Tone, i.e. Bar 19, a rooster next door was crowing. Yes, it was very funny and that created a loop, I was actually thinking if ever performed live to include with SFX. Therefore, the name derives from my friend next door I was using as metronome;
The gallus gallus domesticus is an other name for chicken according to wikipedia as the origin of their domestication is obscure. The early 21st century mitochondrial DNA data suggest the varius red junglefow, gallus gallus subspecies are the wild ancestors of the domestic chicken.
Andrie