zk/writing/3/sonata/index.md

%title Sonata (working title) :writing:novel:memoir:fiction:

Another stab at writing a novel in sonata form.

• Introduction
  • Theme A in the tonic: on performance
  • Theme B in the dominant: on composition
• Development
  • Transition to development: the moment they started coinciding was when I started walking when composing/composing when walking
  • Theme A vs theme B building tension and modulating - add in magical realism bit by bit and it turns out the magical realism is just escaping depression
• Recapitulation
  • Theme A in the tonic: music dissolving into chaos with senior recital
  • Theme B in the tonic: movement dissolving into chaos only literally this time
• Coda?
  • Remembering the faintness of heart that went with the decision not to walk and how similar that was with accepting losing one's body and maybe I do hear music in the everyday and getting away from it is as hopeless as getting away from movement.

I think the thing that helped me get through Qoheleth alright was starting to write (or at least outline) the two separately, and then work on interleaving them about oh I dunno maybe halfway through, so.

Also vi doesn't like working with me at list depths greater than three, so.

Theme A

• Introduction
  • [o] I would love to tell you... - 973
  • [o] I just love office supplies - 994
  • [o] Why am I playing saxophone? - 852
  • [o] The oboe is a metaphor for taking ownership over one's own life - 804
  • [o] Wow omigosh choir - 1036
  • [o] It was at that point that I started to recognize the power of music - 936
• Development
  • Music education is a cop-out
  • My dad took me to a NIN concert and smoked weed with the kids sitting two rows up from us and left me alone to watch Trent Rezner smash his keyboardist's instrument to the ground on stage.
• Recapitulation
  • [o] When we sang, they lifted into the air with such grace as would make an albatross envious - 1222
• Coda

Theme B

• Introduction
  • [.] And then my dad bought me Sibelius
  • It is a hollow victory to get the chair of a department fired when you only wish to major in their subject
  • Jazz improv is the only form of composition people think there is
  • David Maslanka told me I should give up music
  • Jennifer Higdon threatened to sue the composition students for giving their music out for free
• Development
• Recapitulation

Notes

• Gender should never play a role, if at all possible.