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Sonata n°3 for piano — Anthropo-scene

rex.potam@gmail.com (Rex Potam) — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Sonata n°3 for piano in F major, Anthropo-scene
Musique : Rex Potam

I seldom need to introduce my music. THis one is an exception: because it is a program music, I have to introduce its main points so that the listener, but also the performer, can understand what I wanted to imply, and how to interpret this sonata.

This introduction is also (in French) in the sheet music.

This sonata for piano is titled Anthropo-scene. Its ambition is to describe the evolution of humanity since the dawn of times until nowadays.

The ambition is so huge I had to limit its scope. As I need a point of view, I kept centered on my 21st century Frenchman one. This choice is pure convinience; I am aware that I had to limit my conmposition and keep many things out of it.

The first movement, the longest, concentrates the majority of the human evolution. The end of the movement happens around the end of the 17th century, just before the fall of the French Old Regime. Obviously it is in sonata form, with a pastoral theme putting the light on a (certainly idealized) vision of people without the latest technological progress.

The second movement is a waltz. Its backdrop is the French Revolution and the industrial revolution of the 19th century. It is a transitional movement that accelerates towards the third one.

The third movement is most certainly the craziest. Its focus is our contemporary periods, beginning with the two World Wars. It is a rond form, with a theme that keeps coming back and describes not only both Wars, but also, unfortunately, the one that is a bit too much in the air…

The rondo’s intermezzos describe the inter-war periods, including the Cold War with its two blocks, concluded by a very well-known prelude that may be the emblem of that period: the fall of the Berlin wall. After that, there is an episode on our current life, with its contradictions, rises and falls.

The movement (and hence the sonata) concludes on future episodes as we seem to be currently preparing for, maybe painful, before closing on a vision, certainly optimistic, of what happens next. What would we be without any hope?

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Sonata n°2 for piano

rex.potam@gmail.com (Rex Potam) — Tue, 28 May 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Sonata n°2 for piano in C minor
Music: Rex Potam

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Serenade n.1 for melodica

rex.potam@gmail.com (Rex Potam) — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:47:44 +0200

Serenade n.1 for melodica in C minor

The melodica is accompanied by the piano.

Music: Rex Potam
Full score | Soloist score

This Serenade was composed in the fall of 2023, while I was getting acquainted to the melodica and was learning to play it. My aim was to have a piece large enough with a piano accompaniment.

Its structure is based on a dance suite, modernized.

The first movement, written in a sonata form, is built on two contrasting themes: one is calm while the other is more lively. It replaces what would have been an Allemande in olden times.

The second movement, sprightly and loud, is my own interpretation of the Courante.

The third movement, slow and quiet, follows the Sarabande structure.

The fourth movement, very danceable, is a Gavotte, with e Musette as a trio.

The fifth movement is a rondo. The three “stanzas” are successively a Pavane, a Bourrée, and a Passepied. The “chorus” uses a harmony grid similar the the second theme of the first movement, albeit with a few variations.

Movement	Recording
I – adagio, allegro	ISRC FR-9W1-23-70916 Listen 5s to like… Thanks for your interest!
II – vivace	ISRC FR-9W1-23-70917 Listen 5s to like… Thanks for your interest!
III – lento	ISRC FR-9W1-23-70918 Listen 5s to like… Thanks for your interest!
IV – allegretto	ISRC FR-9W1-23-70919 Listen 5s to like… Thanks for your interest!
V – allegro, andante, etc.	ISRC FR-9W1-23-70920 Listen 5s to like… Thanks for your interest!

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Sonata n°1 for piano

rex.potam@gmail.com (Rex Potam) — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Sonata n°1 for piano in G minor
Music: Rex Potam

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