Sonata #5 in B-flat minor by James Domine Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title Sonata #5 in B-flat minor

Artist James Domine

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 31

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Earth Music, Ltd.

Level 5

Product ID 1072679

Genre Concert Contemporary 20th Century

Instruments Piano

Product Description

This sonata is a solo transcription of the first movement of Domines "Piano Concerto #1 in B-flat minor." The sonata begins with a slow introduction that juxtaposes two opposite harmonic realms represented by the interval of a diminished fifth. As the opening sequence drifts aimlessly through a cloud of amorphous sonorities, the principal theme is suddenly and aggressively thrust center stage by an angry theme marked Agitato. This theme wends its torturous way to the contrastingly quiet subordinate theme. An episode of melancholic discourse ensues, creating an air of confidential intimacy. The exposition ends with an elided dominant cadence which is left unresolved and that leads directly to the development section. Chord clusters built on hexachords provide a serialized variation on the principal theme. This tripartite antiphonal sequence works toward a culmination as the theme is expanded in rhythmic layers, finally reaching a cacophonic explosion. A retransition based on the slow introduction leads to the recapitulation, this time with alternating variations on the principal theme. After the lyrical restatement of the subordinate theme, the coda confronts us with a starkly bleak musical atmosphere that concludes with a fiery flourish. This transcription was made at the request of piano pedagogue Joanna Ezrin for Vera Weber, who has played it to great acclaim in numerous competitions and recitals.

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