Piano Sonata (2004)
for solo piano
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Ashlee Mack, piano
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PROGRAM NOTE
Piano Sonata, funded with a grant from the Western Illinois University Alumni Foundation, was commissioned by pianist Ashlee Mack, who premiered the work on November 24, 2004, in Breisach, Germany. The work, lasting approximately twelve minutes, comprises multiple motivic iterations unfolding simultaneously on three hierarchical time-scales. Small-scale intervallic relationships, projected isomorphically in the domains of both pitch and rhythm, further influence the forms of broader phrase groups and, ultimately, the large-scale framework that informs the entire composition. Though structurally serial (all material is generated from a single all-interval row), the work frequently hints at pitch-centricity, and concludes in a “tonality” that resembles A-flat major.