Sonatina for Piano Solo
By fc on May 26, 2012 12:16 pm
Woah, what a week. This piece was composed start-to-finish in less than an hour, and is in Sonata form (loosely: exposition [A: I, B: V], development [V and other modulation] and recapitulation [back to the I]), but extremely compact. It is also completely serial (12-tone, not just freely atonal or freely tonal, this is strict serial composition, meaning it is entirely atonal and has no key centre at all (or does it?)). The whole piece is based on a prime tonerow starting on F#, the exposition begins in this tonerow then modulates to the prime row beginning on the 5 (C#), this repeats. The development begins on the retrograded row beginning on C#, moves to A# (retrograde) and to the F# prime inversion, before returning to the A section for the recapitulation, but following the constant downward tragectory of pitch. Sibelius is the sound generator, and I spruced it up a little in Logic before uploading.
Anyway, apologies to everyone as I've not had time to really listen to much WB over the last couple of weeks, or comment on much. I really enjoyed writing this piece, and remind myself that Arnold Schoenberg said it is not unrealistic to expect a composer who knows their craft to be able to put out a 20 minute string quartet a week.
Hope you enjoy this work. I try to make my serial (or anything close to it) as pleasant to listen to as I can. If anyone is curious to see the score, click : SCORE
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