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"Sonata da Chiesa" for piano [Philip Daniel; 2017]

4 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A tetrapartite "chamber sonata" for piano, often densely contrapuntal, with a heavily chromatic "extended" harmonic language growing out of late romanticism, impressionism, and expressionism. The full engraved score, for your per...

"Sonata da Chiesa" for piano [Philip Daniel; 2017]

Chorale Harmonization on "Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne" [Philip Daniel; 2019]

4 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A setting of the sacred song "Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne" from "Schemelli's Gesang-Buch", for SATB choir with viola obbligato. The full engraved score: You will discover the hymn melody upon which I based this choral work...

Chorale Harmonization on "Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne" [Philip Daniel; 2019]

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, & Bass Guitar in C Lydian Augmented [Philip Daniel; 2017]

4 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A fughetta for four voices, comprised of an exposition and coda without episodes and counter-expositions, in the C Lydian Augmented mode. This is the third mode of the familiar Melodic Minor scale, and is notable for the absence of a functional...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, & Bass Guitar in C Lydian Augmented [Philip Daniel; 2017]

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, & Bass Guitar in A♯ Prometheus Neapolitan [Philip Daniel; 2017]

3 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A four-voice fughetta in the A♯ Prometheus Neapolitan mode which shares motivic similarities with its sibling in C♯ Enigmatic. This hexatonic [six-note] mode, the third mode of the Blues Dorian Hexatonic scale, fuses aspects of the esoteric Prom...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, & Bass Guitar in A♯ Prometheus Neapolitan [Philip Daniel; 2017]

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in C♯ Enigmatic [Philip Daniel; 2017]

3 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A four-voice fughetta on two subjects in the C♯ Ascending Enigmatic mode. This striking mode, the discovery of which many attribute to Giuseppe Verdi, consists of the following intervals: semitone, augmented second, tone, tone, tone, semitone, s...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in C♯ Enigmatic [Philip Daniel; 2017]

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in F Aeolian [Philip Daniel; 2017]

2 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A four-voice fughetta on two subjects in the F Aeolian mode. This fughetta is distinguished from its companions in the set for its length and breadth, and even more so for being composed in one of the ecclesiastical modes rather than in a synthe...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in F Aeolian [Philip Daniel; 2017]

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in B Blues Phrygian [Philip Daniel; 2017]

1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A four-voice fughetta in the B Blues Phrygian mode. This mode arises when combining the Phrygian mode (third mode of major / Ionian; alternatively, natural minor / Aeolian with a flattened supertonic) with the Blues scale (a hexatonic [six-note]...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in B Blues Phrygian [Philip Daniel; 2017]

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in E Mixolydian ♭6 [Philip Daniel; 2017]

1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A four-voice fughetta in the E Mixolydian ♭6 mode. This mode is also known as the Mixolydian ♭13 mode or Aeolian Major mode, and consists of the following intervals in its ascending form: tone, tone, semitone, tone, semitone, tone, tone. A somew...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in E Mixolydian ♭6 [Philip Daniel; 2017]

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in G "Genus Chromaticum" [Philip Daniel; 2017]

31 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

A four-voice fughetta in the G "Genus Chromaticum" mode. This mode, the third mode of Messiaen's 3ʳᵈ Mode of Limited Transposition, is also known as the Messiaen 3ʳᵈ Mode Inverse or the Tcherepnin Scale, and consists of the following intervals i...

Fughetta for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass Guitar in G "Genus Chromaticum" [Philip Daniel; 2017]

The Rending of the Heart: Schoenberg's String Trio [PART I]

31 Oct 2020 4 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

Although Arnold Schoenberg initiated the composition of his String Trio, Opus 45, as early as June 1946, unforeseen catastrophic circumstances would delay his progress and, ultimately, decisively influence the Trio's formal and expressive qualities....