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Sonata for Piano: Illuminations Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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SKU: A0.1320814

Composed by William Grosvenor Neil. This edition: audio, pdf. 20th Century, Classical. Score. 41 pages. LLC, TheComposerStudio.Com #909259. Published by LLC, TheComposerStudio.Com (A0.1320814).

Movement I. Light by the Light of Music
The opening movement of Sonata for Piano: Illuminations is a perpetual sequence of sonorities that illuminate joyful and exuberant emotions. As a contrasting element, I have introduced a Romanian folk song “On the Freedom Plains” that expresses the feeling of liberation that I was looking to capture in this movement. I am drawn to the deeps roots of folk music and how it can temper my musical thoughts and open up the music to universal appeal. I chose a Romanian folk song in order to pay homage to my two oldest sons whose mother’s linage includes Romanian ancestors.

Movement II. Deliquesce
The second movement is a simple song-like narrative that speaks in short rhythmic open phrases. The music progression in variation form. All the while, a spinning thread of notes orbits this narrative, eventually cascading into a perpetual motif that ends suspended in space.

Movement III. Light Upon Water
The third movement continues the perpetual motion of the second movement and transforms into a running tapestry of harmonic statements that build to a euphoric choral declaration. After a reflective, improvisatory middle section, the cascading perpetual motion of the opening returns. The conclusion of the movement is signaled by what I call a crossing cadence: the theme in full chordal orchestration is accelerando in the right hand and is retrograde, ritardando in the left hand. Finally, a short coda finishes the sonata.
The demo audio is comprised of excerpts from each of the movements performed by pianist, Martin Jones.
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