Tear of Ambiguity by Caleb Hugo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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Duration: 6:30

Instrumentation: Solo piano

Performance notes: This is an extremely challenging piece that requires the performer to have complete right and left hand independence in order to perform it with the passion and freedom that it calls for. The rapid independent lines coupled with the sustain pedal being employed through entire sections of the work creates an enormous sound wall that peaks in volume at the climax of the work and dies away naturally without dampening the strings. This of course has the danger of any wrong notes being very obvious for several seconds during these sections. Taking all of these things into account, this piece is clearly written for a very accomplish pianist. However, I do intend to turn this work into a duet to make it even fuller and easier to play. If you are interested in playing this as a duet, feel free to let me know. The more people that are interested, the faster that I will get around to writing it.

Interpretation: As I was writing this work I could never quite decide what emotion I was attempting to capture. Whatever I had in mind, it was an emotion that would bring the subject to tears. My goal has ended up being for me to convince the listener to empathize with another person's suffering and unspeakable joy simultaneously. Some may view this concept as silly and far from practical, but this is the emotion that I think of when I see something incredible to come in the midst of a difficult situation. The adversity must take place in order for joy to result, but terrific end or not it still hurts in the meantime. The journey is beautiful because of its result.

A full synthetic realization of this work can be found in Prelude.