Program Notes
When I wrote You Also I was thinking about the direction of melodic lines. When a line changes direction from ascending to descending, or vice versa, how do we emotionally react? I wrote this piece as an attempt to subvert the change in melodic direction. Almost every line in this piece is ascending. This constant direction gives the music a somewhat stubborn characteristic at times.
It is (in part) because of this stubbornness that I titled the work from a Latin phrase, tu quoque. Tu quoque is a fallacy known as “the appeal to hypocrisy.” It is used to counter the criticism of someone by claiming they are being hypocritical, and therefore their criticism is not valid.