Thomas McConochie
Horn Sonata No. 2 op. 15
for horn and piano
Thomas McConochie
Horn Sonata No. 2 op. 15
for horn and piano
- Instrumentation Horn and Piano
- Composer Thomas McConochie
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Corniworld Publications
- Order no. CPH268
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Description:
I. Allegro
II. Andante con moto (Romanza)
III. Maestoso (Theme and Variations)
I learnt a lot from composing and performing my first horn sonata and applied those lessons as goals for this second sonata. One thing I achieved was having more of a dialogue and call and response between the horn and piano part (rather than just having the melody on the horn all the time). We can hear this in the second subject of the first movement, where the piano plays most of the melody and the horn responds with characteristic "hand-stopped-chromatic-leading-tone-to-open-note" technique that is part of the charm of natural horn music. In the second movement, both the horn and piano take turns playing the melody and accompanying one another in this straight-forward romanza. In the third movement, each variation concludes with a ritornello played by the piano, which is essentially a re-statement of the B section of the theme/variation.
II. Andante con moto (Romanza)
III. Maestoso (Theme and Variations)
I learnt a lot from composing and performing my first horn sonata and applied those lessons as goals for this second sonata. One thing I achieved was having more of a dialogue and call and response between the horn and piano part (rather than just having the melody on the horn all the time). We can hear this in the second subject of the first movement, where the piano plays most of the melody and the horn responds with characteristic "hand-stopped-chromatic-leading-tone-to-open-note" technique that is part of the charm of natural horn music. In the second movement, both the horn and piano take turns playing the melody and accompanying one another in this straight-forward romanza. In the third movement, each variation concludes with a ritornello played by the piano, which is essentially a re-statement of the B section of the theme/variation.