Kennan: Sonata for Bb Trumpet and Piano ~ The Revised 1986 Edition (Piano Part with Pull-out Part for Bb Trumpet) (Contemporary Works for Brass Instruments)

Kennan: Sonata for Bb Trumpet and Piano ~ The Revised 1986 Edition (Piano Part with Pull-out Part for Bb Trumpet) (Contemporary Works for Brass Instruments) Review

The Revised 1989 Edition (Piano Part with Pull-out Part for Bb Trumpet). From the Introduction: The Sonata for Trumpet and Piano was commissioned by the National Association of Schools of Music and first published in 1956. The present revised version differs from the original one in the following respects: Passages that involve uneven groupings (5/8.7/8, etc.) or segments of varying lengths have been renotated using their "true" meter signatures rather than in a consistent meter with irregular beaming or accents. Although the latter notation was once felt to be easier to read, it tends to seem unnatural and even confusing to today's performers, for whom uneven and changing meters have long since become routine. The coda of the first movement, which the composer came to feel was too extended and repetitive, has been shortened somewhat. This change also reduces the tendency of that movement to seem disproportionately long in relation to the others. Metronome indications, which were originally about one notch too fast (because of a faulty metronome used in determining them) have been corrected. Portions of the piano part have been altered slightly. for reasons too various lo detail here. "In addition to four LP recordings of the Sonata issued some years ago, there is now a recording by Raymond Mase. Trumpet, and David Pearl, piano, on a compact disc entitled "Trumpet in our time" (Summit Records, DCD 148). Kent Kennan, January 1997