Sonatine
A collaboration with Rick Rowley, piano and Perfecto Creative
Generously supported by the Butler School of Music faculty development program.
Sonatine is a short three-movement piece based on Erik Satie's Sonatine bureaucratique which is based on Muzio Clementi's Sonatina Op. 36 no. 1. Satie creatively transformed Clementi's music while maintaining a clear and recognizable form, diverse textures throughout, and a sense of conversation in the music. I sought to do the same using my own compositional voice. I diverged from the Satie where he diverged from the Clementi - for example, the outer sections of the second movement (Satie's melody is stepwise where Clementi's leaps around, and mine is quite a bit more languorous and in 5/8 meter) - but for those who know either earlier work (and for those who don't), Sonatine will hopefully feel equal parts familiar, surprising, and refreshing.
Videography by Luke Jacobs of Perfecto Creative.
Sonatine is a short three-movement piece based on Erik Satie's Sonatine bureaucratique which is based on Muzio Clementi's Sonatina Op. 36 no. 1. Satie creatively transformed Clementi's music while maintaining a clear and recognizable form, diverse textures throughout, and a sense of conversation in the music. I sought to do the same using my own compositional voice. I diverged from the Satie where he diverged from the Clementi - for example, the outer sections of the second movement (Satie's melody is stepwise where Clementi's leaps around, and mine is quite a bit more languorous and in 5/8 meter) - but for those who know either earlier work (and for those who don't), Sonatine will hopefully feel equal parts familiar, surprising, and refreshing.
Videography by Luke Jacobs of Perfecto Creative.
