Name: Guitar Sonata No. 7 in D minor homage to Blind Willie Johnson by Jeremiah Lawson Solo Guitar Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Jeremiah Lawson
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Guitar Sonata No. 7 in D minor homage to Blind Willie Johnson
by Jeremiah Lawson Solo Guitar - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Guitar Sonata No. 7 in D minor homage to Blind Willie Johnson

Artist Jeremiah Lawson

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Jeremiah Lawson

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 21

Arrangement Solo Guitar

Publisher Jeremiah Lawson

Level 5

Product ID 1081502

Genre Contemporary

Instruments Guitar

Product Description

This guitar sonata is a four-movement work in open D tuning throughout. The performance time is between 17 to 18 minutes. I worked on this sonata from 2016 through 2019 as an homage to Blind Willie Johnson. The movements are as follows.
I. Andante (a fugue in triple counterpoint)
II. Scherzo
III. Largo trionfante (a ragtime sonata whose recapitulation leads seamlessly into)
IV. Variations on "Restoration" from William Walker's Southern Harmony

The work is written in cumulative setting after the model of Charles Ives but in a Haydnesque homage to not just Blind Willie Johnson but also with musical tributes to Stevie Wonder, Bach (the triple counterpoint), Louis Armstrong and Lil Harden. The fourth movement is a bravura set of variations on the shape note hymn "Restoration" that is the foundation of the entire sonata, using bottleneck technique throughout as an homage to Blind Willie Johnson.

Owing to the use of bottleneck technique and the open D tuning throughout this is a pretty tough sonata to play but it's fun to play and I've filmed myself playing through it to demonstrate its practicality in performance.

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