Dreams of a Somnambulist by Michael Staff Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Michael Staff

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Michael Staff

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 11

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Michael Staff

Product ID 1108331

Genre Contemporary

Instruments Piano

Product Description

Originally intended to be the first movement of a sonata (the chromatic argument being the second movement), the main thematic material for this work was composed entirely during sleep. Music 'written' during sleep was then penned in a notebook immediately after waking up each morning. Collecting six years-worth of these ideas formed the main thematic elements.

After constructing the primary and subordinate themes, the exposition was treated as a parent function would be in mathematics. Using the concept of graph transformations, the original idea was then stretched, diminished, shifted, rotated, and reflected, resulting in unique musical transformations.

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