click the image below to play The first five notes make up the most prominent motif of this piece. I chose the key of D-flat Major because it´s usually easier to roll chords on black keys. Watch those C-flats! Sonata in D-flat for piano, two hands I composed this work in 1996 as a determined effort to demonstrate the independence of musical structure with harmony. Though titled as a sonata, the piece is similar to the formal definition of that style only to the extent that there are exposition and development sections in about the proportions you would expect to see in a piece of the classical era. However, instead of introducing two main themes in the exposition, a much larger number of smaller motifs are presented in the first twenty measures. From that point on, these motifs are transposed, inverted, distored, and combined in layers to create a montage of harmonic impressions that is, at times, a bit thick and boorish. This may sound like the recipe for an avant-guard or serial work, but for the most part I try to adhere to the regulations of classical harmony and counterpoint.