| Composition Year | 1982 |
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| Genre Categories | Sonatas; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player |
Contents |
Complete Score
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Pseudotonal (2023/10/27)
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| Work Title | Sonatina |
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| Alternative. Title | |
| Composer | Drehmer, Earl Richard |
| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. | IED 8 |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1982 |
| First Publication. | 2012 |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 9.3 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
| Piece Style | Modern |
| Instrumentation | piano |
| Extra Information | This piece is actually diatonic. However, the scale is modal. It has 9 tones: C, C#, D#, E, F, G, G#, A, B. The sequence is half/whole/half, repeated 3 times to make an octave. This odd combination is actually a Mode of Limited Transposition. See Messiaen for more about this. It results in some very strange harmonies. It can be used tonally or atonally. |