The Elysian Fields

Nine variations in, and I start transcribing this technically-unnamed etude like thingie for two guitars into the sheet music software, and I play it back just to verify progress. The first bar of the first variation - the most repeated fragment in the piece - starts to sound familiar.

So, as I'm calling aequitaslevitas up to come and verify (he's been writing most of the variations), I quick grab some sheet music and I quickly append two bars and a fragment - the two bars being nearly identical to the first bar of the etude, transcribed down a half step and with the last note held for a quarter and an eighth note at the end that leads into things instead of our dotted eighth...

And I play it for aequitaslevitas... and he says it sounds familiar...

Yeah. We should probably name the piece La primavera.

And expand it into a set of four concertos. We can call them Le quattro stagioni.

...

The funny thing is, despite it being a classical pretty-much straight-on-time piece, we swing it a bit, so this wasn't noticeable when we've been playing it. However, the sheet music software is a robot, and just ticks it out.

Hey, I may be three degrees from Kevin Bacon, but I'm only a half-step away from Vivaldi...