Symphony "jigsaw" falling into place
I've spent the last 45 minutes or so (when I should have been asleep) playing with lamenting waltz theme I had hummed to myself either in the shower or on the way to work long ago, and captured in GarageBand so I would have it for later. As I developed the harmonies I realized I had taken elements of my first symphony movement and worked them in. By unconscious artistic comprehension or having fallen into a rut (I prefer the former) I ended up creating exactly what I needed for the Trio portion of the third movement. Combine this with a string quartet little demo theme I wrote when I first got GPO, and, voila, the third movement is practically written. [Ha, ha. There is still the arranging for orchestra, transitions, dealing with the fact that the two parts are in separate GarageBand files, and of course, mixing it all at the end. The art is done. The grunt work remains if I'm to share it outside of my head...]

I have always planned on using Beyond as a theme in the second movement.

Shortly after I released it, I realized that the first 2/3 of Summoned! would be the first theme of the fourth movement. [The fourth movement will be "battered sonata" form. I intend to start with a sonata form but beat it up a bit. I have my reasons.]

So I have actually written music for all four movements of my symphony, needing only two or three themes to have all of the major ideas sketched out. Maybe I will finish this in my lifetime!