After playing through Monday's work I realised that I was happy with the piece as it stood. After a bit of editing today (checking harmonics, adding more performance details) the movement is now complete in draft form. The next job is to create an audio mockup.

Spend today working on the slow movement of the violin sonatina and I believe I have the whole movement sketched. By sketched I mean that all the notes are now down and have written the ending and now need to check it through. Will probably require a bit of fleshing out in places before it's in first draft form. Wrote an extensive addition to the opening material employing the ciphers and morse code which seems to float and drift as intended. Lots of free time rhythm and ambiguous 'jazzy' harmony as intended. The fog clears by the end and I managed to use some material if previously scrapped which is always amusing.

After four years' work I submitted my PhD today. Now at last I can return to composing. Continuing work on the violin sonatina (mvII), a piano piece, and a new quartet.