Sonata No. 19 in G Major

Started: 4-25-2009, 1:17 PM
Completed: 4-25-2009, 1:45 PM
Newport Beach, CA

I've written out musical ideas in some very strange places. It's never really happened, but I have this fear that I'll lose an idea if I don't write it down within a reasonable period of time after imagining it. My friends might argue that I'm very much one, but I think I'm only somewhat of a clean freak. Either way, I have a big aversion to writing on myself, so you'll never find me scribbling ideas onto my palm or my arm, but I have written on a number of dinner napkins, loose envelopes, deposit slips, etc. This particular sonata was actually written on my iPhone. I went bed and table shopping with my mom at Ligne Roset, and at some point I fell completely out of the loop and it ended up being my mom and the store rep on one side of the store and me in a chair on the other. In my boredom, I came up with this little sonata.

This is an easy sonata from a technical standpoint, and there's nothing overly remarkable about in terms of its composition either. It's just a straightforward beginner or intermediate level sonata.

I guess in a sense it paid to be stuck off in a corner for forty minutes or so. (And I actually liked the chair so much I went home with one just like it.)

Enjoy!