Sonata for Microtonal Piano
- Sonata for Microtonal Piano
"Sonata for Microtonal Piano" is a sonata for specifically microtonally tuned piano by Ben Johnston written in 1964 (see also just intonation).
The composer is trying to escape the "standard" forms of music; in the words of the composer:
:"The "Sonata", whether presented as beauty or as the beast, is a monstrous parody-enigma, allusive, referential, sometimes derisive, distorted, a tissue of familiarity in radically strange garb....Whatever the closing mood brings to mind, it is overlaid with irony and derision. The Sonata sequence poses the challenge: fast, faster, slow, slower. When, in the "Sonata"'s finale, the knots are finally untied, will it be clear from what Houdini has escaped?" [Liner notes for "SOUND FORMS FOR PIANO", New World Records 80203, fetched from [http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80203.pdf] ]
Movements
"Sonata for Microtonal Piano"
# Sonata-allegro
# Scherzo
# Slow movement
# Finale
"Grindlemusic"
# Premises
# Questions
# Soul Music
# Mood Music
Sonata-allegro = Questions, Scherzo = Mood Music, Slow movement = Soul Music, Finale = Premises.
The piece has been recorded and released on:
*"Microtonal Piano by Ben Johnston" (1997). Phillip Bush, piano. Koch International Classics 3-7369-2.
References
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