Nature for solo guitar

the nature of man / the nature of earth This composition had two initial inspirations: the aggressive sound of a minor major seventh chord, and the traffic on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in Clarksville, Tennessee. I lived in Clarksville for two years while attending Austin Peay State University. It's not among my favorite places I've lived. With the sprawling expanse of big box retailers, fast food restaurants, three-lane thoroughfares, crumbling side streets, and a hard-to-ignore litter problem, it is a perfect picture of Anywhere, USA. I sketched out the early ideas for this piece shortly after graduating from APSU. As I continued composing it over the next two years, I held in my head the image of an asphalt jungle and frantic vehicle traffic. The title Nature eluded me until long after I had finished the piece. It holds a dual meaning, referring to humanity's tendency to always build and expand with disregard for the impact on the nature around us, as well as the way in which nature ev