Name: Sonata #1 in C major (Commedia dell’arte all’improvviso) by James Domine Piano Solo Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Earth Music, Ltd.
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Sonata #1 in C major (Commedia dell’arte all’improvviso)
by James Domine Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Sonata #1 in C major (Commedia dell’arte all’improvviso)

Artist James Domine

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 16

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Earth Music, Ltd.

Product ID 1072676

Genre Contemporary 20th Century

Instruments Piano

Product Description

The piano sonatas by James Domine are cast in one movement and follow the traditional sonata-allegro form. The first of these, Piano Sonata #1 in C major opens with a lively theme in C major sweetened by the interpolation of a recurring f# that is marked with the tempo indication of Animato. The principal theme is followed by a contrastingly sentimental cantabile melody that has something of a jazz-ballad flavor set in the dominant key. These two themes are cunningly entwined through the development in an harmonic sequence that emerges into a playful recapitulation. The sonata ends with an open-spaced quartal figuration that implies the tonic key of C major but without implicitly spelling it out in its common triadic form. The subtitle Commedia dellarte allimprovviso comes from the light-hearted comedic character of the principal theme that is treated throughout in a quasi-improvisational manner reminiscent of the sixteenth-century Italian theatrical style. This sonata, although begun at an earlier date, was completed in 2005 at the request of Joanna Ezrin, pianist and pedagogue as a vehicle for her students.

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