Name: Sonata for Piano: Illuminations by William Grosvenor Neil Piano Solo Digital Sheet Music
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Sonata for Piano: Illuminations
by William Grosvenor Neil Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Sonata for Piano: Illuminations

Artist William Grosvenor Neil

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer William Grosvenor Neil

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 41

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher TheComposerStudio.Com, LLC

Level 5

Product ID 1423021

Genre Classical 20th Century

Instruments Piano

Product Description

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 mothers 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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