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Work Title Sonata for Clarinet |
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Date Composed in 1933. |
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Ensemble Type Solo |
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Work Length 6 minutes |
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Instrumentation For solo clarinet. |
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Comments This work is in three chromatic movements: “Vivace,” “Lento,” and “Vivace,” and was composed while Cage was in Los Angeles. Its third movement is a retrograde canon of the first, although not rhythmically. Octave transpositions are used. Sonata for Clarinet is a typical early example of Cage’s work, being rhythmically complex and non-metrical. Cage makes free use of short motives, repeating and varying them throughout. The second movement sounds very close to serial music, but Cage never used this method of composition. |
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Publication Peters Edition EP 6753 |
