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Alternate: Sonata for Cornet and Piano is a consortium led by Dr. Doug Lindsey that will result in an approximately 15-minute-long sonata for cornet in B-flat and piano.
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The Alternate Sonata draws inspiration from modern-day depictions of the doppelgänger, a fictitious, ghostly look-alike of a living person, such as the Mandela Catalogue, which utilizes the term "Alternate" as a descriptor for these evil twins. Further inspiration comes from Franz Schubert's famed lied Der Doppelgänger. The Sonata will consist of three stand-alone movements that loosely follow a person encountering their alternate, realizing that they are doomed, and finally being replaced by the alternate. The alternate proceeds to live that person's life, who is forever trapped in an endless void..
I. Face in the Moonlight
II. The Quiet Streets
III. A New Beginning
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The Alternate Sonata will be of advanced/professional difficulty and will explore the lyrical and technical boundaries of the cornet.
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The cost to join the Alternate consortium is $75. Members of the consortium will have their names printed on the score, get a 6-month performance and recording exclusivity period (until November of 2025), receive a mailed, professionally bound, signed copy of Alternate: Sonata for Cornet and Piano as well as an emailed PDF copy of the score and parts, and receive occasional consortium updates during the writing of the Sonata.
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The digital PDFs will be delivered to consortium members in May of 2025 and the physical sheet music will be mailed soon after.
Alternate: Sonata for Cornet and Piano is a consortium led by Dr. Doug Lindsey that will result in an approximately 15-minute-long sonata for cornet in B-flat and piano.
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The Alternate Sonata draws inspiration from modern-day depictions of the doppelgänger, a fictitious, ghostly look-alike of a living person, such as the Mandela Catalogue, which utilizes the term "Alternate" as a descriptor for these evil twins. Further inspiration comes from Franz Schubert's famed lied Der Doppelgänger. The Sonata will consist of three stand-alone movements that loosely follow a person encountering their alternate, realizing that they are doomed, and finally being replaced by the alternate. The alternate proceeds to live that person's life, who is forever trapped in an endless void..
I. Face in the Moonlight
II. The Quiet Streets
III. A New Beginning
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The Alternate Sonata will be of advanced/professional difficulty and will explore the lyrical and technical boundaries of the cornet.
-
The cost to join the Alternate consortium is $75. Members of the consortium will have their names printed on the score, get a 6-month performance and recording exclusivity period (until November of 2025), receive a mailed, professionally bound, signed copy of Alternate: Sonata for Cornet and Piano as well as an emailed PDF copy of the score and parts, and receive occasional consortium updates during the writing of the Sonata.
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The digital PDFs will be delivered to consortium members in May of 2025 and the physical sheet music will be mailed soon after.