Composed by Jeremiah Lawson. Contemporary. Individual part. 21 pages. Jeremiah Lawson #6063881. Published by Jeremiah Lawson (A0.985329).
This guitar sonata is a four-movement work in open D tuning throughout. The performance time is between 17 to 18 minutes. I worked on this sonata from 2016 through 2019 as an homage to Blind Willie Johnson. The movements are as follows. I. Andante (a fugue in triple counterpoint) II. Scherzo III. Largo trionfante (a ragtime sonata whose recapitulation leads seamlessly into) IV. Variations on "Restoration" from William Walker's Southern Harmony
The work is written in cumulative setting after the model of Charles Ives but in a Haydnesque homage to not just Blind Willie Johnson but also with musical tributes to Stevie Wonder, Bach (the triple counterpoint), Louis Armstrong and Lil Harden. The fourth movement is a bravura set of variations on the shape note hymn "Restoration" that is the foundation of the entire sonata, using bottleneck technique throughout as an homage to Blind Willie Johnson.
Owing to the use of bottleneck technique and the open D tuning throughout this is a pretty tough sonata to play but it's fun to play and I've filmed myself playing through it to demonstrate its practicality in performance.
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Composed by Jeremiah Lawson. Contemporary. Individual part. 21 pages. Jeremiah Lawson #6063881. Published by Jeremiah Lawson (A0.985329).
This guitar sonata is a four-movement work in open D tuning throughout. The performance time is between 17 to 18 minutes. I worked on this sonata from 2016 through 2019 as an homage to Blind Willie Johnson. The movements are as follows. I. Andante (a fugue in triple counterpoint) II. Scherzo III. Largo trionfante (a ragtime sonata whose recapitulation leads seamlessly into) IV. Variations on "Restoration" from William Walker's Southern Harmony
The work is written in cumulative setting after the model of Charles Ives but in a Haydnesque homage to not just Blind Willie Johnson but also with musical tributes to Stevie Wonder, Bach (the triple counterpoint), Louis Armstrong and Lil Harden. The fourth movement is a bravura set of variations on the shape note hymn "Restoration" that is the foundation of the entire sonata, using bottleneck technique throughout as an homage to Blind Willie Johnson.
Owing to the use of bottleneck technique and the open D tuning throughout this is a pretty tough sonata to play but it's fun to play and I've filmed myself playing through it to demonstrate its practicality in performance.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
Preview: Guitar Sonata No. 7 in D minor homage to Blind Willie Johnson
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