This collection aims to be a valid alternative in modern/contemporary style to the sonatas by Clementi, Dussek, Kuhlau, etc., maintaining the same level of technical complexity and the same didactic utility in the development of the hand and musical sensitivity. These sonatas are pleasant to listen to and fun to study.
The “Sonatine in modal style” are composed following the classic Sonata-Form and are inspired by the four elements. This inspiration allowed me to imagine a “depicting music”, music that originated from images and that creates images as well.
Working with images doesn’t necessarily mean writing movies soundtracks, I wanted to investigate them from another point of view.
Image is memory codification, our temper grows and forms itself starting from the images stored in ourselves even if we don’t see or even remember them and make us feel as we do.
Images are made up of vibrations and therefore of frequencies. Music is composed of frequencies, too, and it is the perfect art to work with them. The pieces I write want to be an attempt to search for images, colours, forms or other visual elements stored jealously in the inner part of each of us. They are different from mine but authentic in the same way, and they touch the most secret part of us making us feel special and unique.
I used the modal style for composing these Sonatine, I feel this style suitable for me and I followed composing techniques typical of the 20th century used by Stravinski, Prokofiev, Janácek, but modified them according to my personal sensitivity. Those techniques are used gradually and mixed with a language caressing the soundtrack sphere.
The Modal style has allowed the synthesis of languages, from the inventions of contemporary music to modern music through film music.
As Mattia Mei writes: “Carlo Corazza’s music is placed somewhere between the deep classical background and soundtrack allusions”.
