Since the early 1970's, I have been interested in the ways literature and painting influence musical ideas and form - how literatury images or use of color can inspire everything from the smallest melodic shape to a work's overall structure. The structure of ''Piano Sonata'' is based upon Jasper Johns' Voice 2. Voice 2 has gone trough three transformations: originally an oil and collage tryptich (1971), later a three-panel litograph (1982), and, in a final version, a nine-panel interchangeable series made of the 1982 lithograph. Johns borrows material from earlier works and utilizes overlapping, extension, and repetition as the main ingredients of form. ''Piano Sonata'' is divided into three sections which reflect three musicial textures: angular and pulsating; fast runs and chords; and lyrical. As with Johns' series, the three sections of ''Piano Sonata'' evolve into nine interactive sections and a coda. ''Piano Sonata'' was written for Antohny de Mare and premiered on his New York debut recital in 1986.
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Piano Sonata (Biscardi Chester)

Performance Notes - "These marking (at times approximated with poco) affect attacs only. They do not necessarily affect the durations. Notes without any marks are given a normal, unaccented attack. Natural harmonic (circle above notehead): fret (Roman numeral) and strings are indicated (numbers in circles). Artificial harmonics: the left hand fingers an octave lower than the notated pitch (string indicated), while the right hand touches lightly at the notated pitch and plucks, letting the sound ring".

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Resisting Stillness for 2 Guitars (Biscardi Chester)