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The Five Sonatinas for Piano by Walter Saul: A Recording and a Guide for Teachers and Performers

abstract: This research concentrates on the five sonatinas for piano by Walter Saul. It consists of a recording and a document providing musical analyses and performance guides to these sonatinas.

The purpose of the research is to introduce Walter Saul’s five sonatinas, composed from 1998 to 2015. Walter Saul is a gifted living American composer and pianist. He has written a quantity of piano music intended for study by young performers. His five sonatinas, in traditional sonata forms, use a variety of compositional techniques, including twelve-tone rows, jazz elements, modulations, modes, scales, and contrapuntal procedures. Performers may find that the analyses in this document are useful in understanding these pieces. The guides are likewise provided to teachers and students studying these pieces.

This paper consists of six chapters. It begins with an introduction in Chapter 1; Chapter 2 presents a biography of Walter Saul; Chapter 3 observes characteristics of Walter Saul’s piano music; Chapter 4 deals with background of the five sonatinas; Chapter 5 provides performance guides including simple analyses; Chapter 6 arrives at a conclusion. / Dissertation/Thesis / APPENDIX B: A RECORDING OF FIVE PIANO SONATINAS OF WALTER SAUL BY AHYEON YUN, PIANO / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2017

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:44067
Date January 2017
ContributorsYun, Ahyeon (Author), Cosand, Walter (Advisor), Rogers, Rodney (Committee member), Ryan, Russell (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format96 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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