well, I finally got down to business and finished the clarinet sonata!
So here it is in its final form - a single movement, subdivided into three "parts", each part subdivided into two "movements". Maybe a bit like a book divided into three larger parts, and each part in two chapters - it's the same story, but it evolves and develops through the various chapters.
The initial "Preludium" presents the thematic and harmonic material of the entire sonata.
Melodically, the emphasis was on two contrasting elements: a series of stacked 4ths and a brief scalar phrase in 16th notes.
The harmony was built from the stacked 4ths as well as polychords, which were generally inverted to forms that were as similar as possible to the stacked 4th chords.
The end effect is quite tonal-centric, though the music rarely remains perfectly stable within the same harmonic context for long.
A second element that helps develop the material is the use of contrapuntal techniques. Nothing "strict" in a baroque sense, but various turns of phrase pop up here and there to expand the vocabulary.
Part I
which consists of the Preludium and the Scherzo
Part II
which consists of the Nocturne and Tiento (March). A Tiento is a Spanish baroque fugal form. Here, I superimposed it on a marching rythme.
Part III
which consists of the Arioso and Ronde. The Ronde acts as a sort of final classical rondo, here the material from the preceding movements generates the various "verses" while the "refrain" is built from the brief scalar passage.
Normally, the entire sonata is played without pause, however that would have made for too large an audio file.
I will post the score a bit later, for the time being it is still being looked over for typographical errors.