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George Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winner composer whose compositional language includes unity through intervallic coherence. While taking one of Howard Hanson’s theory courses at the Eastman School of Music, Walker gained full control over unity through the consistent projection of an interval in composition. This is a performer’s document that analyzes the first four piano sonatas by focusing on how they are unified with intervals. Walker uses certain intervals as the basis for the four sonatas by constructing motives, chords or clusters, and key relationships within and between movements from the given interval/intervals—this is intervallic coherence. The First Sonata is constructed from fourths, the Second is based on thirds, the Third Sonata is built from seconds, and the Fourth Sonata uses octaves, seconds, and fourths. The first chapter is an introduction that includes a brief biography with a description of the document and my purpose for writing it, the second chapter systematically gives a brief outline of the form of each sonata and analyzes the specific interval/intervals used, the next chapter is a small section that surveys the sonatas with performance suggestions and descriptions of each work, and the last chapter is the conclusion of the document. |
