Sonatina

by Margaret Dylan Jones

This dark work, written at a time of crisis, was originally titled "Visions" but I felt it was so much concerned with some sort of struggle or conflict and resolution that I renamed it "Sonatina". Rather than a contrast between two or more tonal or key centres, the contrast is between a doleful G natural and the abyss, where there is no one note to which to relate other notes. This echos the sense of isolation often experienced by young people. In the coda one has a (prophetic) sense of partial resolution in the evocation of a Balinese gamelan percussion ensemble.

 

© MDJ 2006

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