Sonata

The Sonata for Trombone and Piano was completed in July 1999 as a commission for Andrew Malloy. The work is based on a “troublesome” 12 tone row, the intervals of which imply shifting chromatic tonality, Sometimes the row gets a strict serial treatment; at other times the “rules” of 12-tone composition are bent, allowing the implied tonal harmonies to blossom. As the work progresses, the conflict and cooperation between tonal and atonal elements form a structural subtext to the overt classical forms. The three movements follow a traditional form: I. Allegro (sonata form with fugal development); II. Andante (Chaconne); III. Allegro non troppo (Rondo;