Sonata Movement
This sonata-allegro began as an exercise in one of my undergraduate composition seminars with Salvatore Macchia at UMass, Amherst. The assignment was to create a short ABA piece using an almost-whole-tone scale (with just one semi-tone at the end) for its "tonality." As you might hear, I had been listening to a great deal of Debussy and Shostakovich at the time, and years later I realized that I could expand the short exercise into a sonata-allegro movement.
Melody
This is a short piece whose melody (and counter-melody) enjoys switching back and forth between duple and triple rhythms. I plan for it to be part of a piano suite whose other movements will include a prelude, scherzo, minuet, and barcarolle.
Scherzo
I wrote this scherzo to be another movement in the piano suite that I'm in the process of writing. It features a playful rhythmic conversation between left and right hand (mostly) in 5/4.