Document Type
Audio
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
This playful, virtuosic movement is evocative of American folk music, particularly Appalachian fiddle music and song. The fiddle music is abstracted, certainly, yet the figurations are idiomatic. The folk song, which interrupts the “instrumental” music twice, is original. A hint of it appears in the “working out’ at the center of the form and also in the high register at the very close of the movement. The title, “Moonspinner” is named after an old-fashioned hand made wooden toy I once saw in North Carolina. I always promised myself I would write a piece with this title.
Recommended Citation
Smart, Gary and Miyake, Yukino, "Piano Sonata II. Moonspinner (Recording)" (2016). Music Faculty Research and Scholarship. 35.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/amus_facpub/35
Comments
Score of Piano Sonata is available here: http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/amus_facpub/32
Recording of Piano Sonata I. Kimnara’s Blessing is available here: http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/amus_facpub/36
Recording of Piano Sonata III. Turtle Dreams of Flight is available here: http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/amus_facpub/34
Recording of Piano Sonata IV. Chez Garuda is available here: http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/amus_facpub/33