"Contrapasso"

Another "title inspired" song. I picked contrapasso because it sounds like a music term but actually translates to something like "punishment that fits the crime"--it's mostly related to Dante's Inferno. From there I got the idea to write something more classical-sounding but simultaneously hellish and scary, with this sort of theme of descent.

It's the key of e-flat minor, chosen because so far few of my songs are in sharp/flat keys, and because it uses mostly black keys, which let me reference the pentatonic scales scales used in a lot of religious music. I used a church organ for a similar reason. The only instrument that I allowed to play out of the scale was the piano, both because I wasn't good enough to play the whole thing in key and also because I think it makes things more chaotic as you head toward the end.

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Rerelease Notes: I think I made the flute a bit quieter. I can't remember.