Three Impromptus
SM-000542087
Description
- Composer
- John Carbon
- Publisher
- JCcollections
- Genre
- Classical
- Instrumentation
- Piano
- Scored for
- Solo
- Type of score
- For a single performer
- Key
- G flat major
- Duration
- 16'43"
- Difficulty
- Difficult
- Year of composition
- 2014
- Description
- Unlike much of my music, Three Impromptus does not rely on any extra-musical impetus. The primary inspirations here were works in the same genre by Schubert and Chopin. I’ve always thought that Chopin and Schubert’s Impromptus didn’t sound extemporaneous or improvised. They don’t give me the impression that they were tossed off without any preparation, except maybe in the case of the shortest and earliest efforts. I wasn’t attempting to write something that sounds spontaneous either. Instead, my Impromptus have obvious formal boundaries. The first of the three is in an ABA’ form, with a cantabile melody enclosing a more turbulent middle section. The second movement is a very slow sustained waltz, with several secondary themes in duple meter. The last of the set of three is a syncopated dance with macabre undertones cast in rondo form. (John Carbon)
- Upload date
- 13 Nov 2022
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