Friulian Sonatina by Carlo Corazza

In the 1st and 3rd movements of Sonatina Friulana we find the word “Stajare”. It is a rural dance that comes from Austria, in particular from the Steiermark region, and from there it has arrived in Italy and in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Here the dance took typical local features that remember a kind of Mazurka. The first movement of Friulian Sonatina is built following the Sonata-Form scheme. However, in this Sonatina the two main themes are taken from Friulian popular tradition. In particular, the first is the Stajare Tintine Tintone, which I transformed from a tonal to a modal harmonisation, while the second is the villotta “E tu Pieri cjol Anute”, that I harmonised with the fourth augmented. The first 8-bar theme leaves the place to a 3-bar little modulate bridge leading to the second 8-bar theme. At bar 21 we find the development elaborating the material. The recapitulation at bar 39 introduces the second theme, in the starting modal tone. The original melody of Tintine Tintone begins with the notes of the left hand at bar 5 and continues with the right-hand melody of the beginning. I superimposed the 2 melodies in bars 5 and 6 with are presented in succession in the original.

The Stajare theme was used by L.van Beethoven in his Sonata op. 81 entitled “Das Wiedersehn”.

In the second movement The Echo of the Earth, there are thematic elements that recall the popular melodies of Ave or Vergine, us saludi by Luigi Garzoni and Stelutis aplinis by Arturo Zardini. The third movement Nuova Furlana Campestre is a harmonic adaptation of the Antica Furlana Campestre, mixed with a hint of the famous Friulian dance Schiarazule Marazule by Giorgio Mainerio (Parma 1535 – Aquileia 1582), a theme that will be harmonized in a modal style and developed with variations in the final movement.

Tracklist

1.	Stajare	2:09

2.	Echo of Earth	2:26

3.	New Furlana Campestre	0:48

4.	Varied theme, Schiarazule marazule	2:08

Credits

released April 8, 2022

Carlo Corazza on Piano

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