Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) is a composer who plays an important role in Russia Music.
During various raging musical trends, and revolutionary periods, maintaining his unique style, he contributed a great deal to 20th music history as a neo-classic a...
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) is a composer who plays an important role in Russia Music.
During various raging musical trends, and revolutionary periods, maintaining his unique style, he contributed a great deal to 20th music history as a neo-classic artist.
He uses conventional composition methods such as sonata form, contrapuntal techniques, tocatta, and major and minor modes. In addition, the contemporary compositional techniques such as dissonance, poly chords, polymeter, polyrhythm and sudden modulation are employed in this work.
He created his style by effectively harmonizing these five musical vocabularies, such as 'classical, innovation, toccata, lyrical and grotesque characters' in his compositions.
He shaped his own character in melody, harmony, and rhythm. It had been reflected in various piano sonatas written over 40years.
Piano sonata No.3 follows the traditional sonata form despite its composition of one movement, and contains dissonant elements even though it's written in a minor.
This sonata consists of two themes and is in the form of sonata-allegro that is made of Exposition - Development - Recapitulation - Coda.
This piece orchestrates toccata rhythmic elements and lyrical tunes appropriately by the perpetual motion of triplets and sixteenth notes, alberti-bass, and melodic elements, creating a unique tone of Prokofiev's style.
It has toccata element that piano deals with percussion in a series of ff.
He used the 18th triple chords with additional sounds. Also, 7,9,11 harmony, modulation, a chromatic scale, and harmony and voice leading, were apparent in all parts of his music.
The ending parts also have traditional Ⅰ-Ⅳ-Ⅴ-Ⅰ type as a harmony progression, and transposition is not the key relationship, but distant keys as relative free progression.
This tune is of short movement, he wanted to express peculiar musical modes such as his own innovative and modern techniques and the like, based on classical forms with his own original musical usage.