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The Soggy Sonatina

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This modern-sounding, 21st Century sonatina was commissioned by the Katy Music Teachers Association and features all kinds of special effects!

  • Level: Late elementary
  • Pages: 10 pages of music. All covers for individual movements included in the digital studio license
  • Style: 3 different styles – I. Modern classical and grand II. Lyrical III. Jazzy
  • Format: Print OR PDF instant download

The Soggy Sonatina is a modern piano sonatina that was commissioned by the Katy Music Teachers Association in Katy, Texas. Three movements are featured in this sonatina and include:

  • Springs and Sprinkles – features sonata form complete with two glissandos and a magnificently impressive ending!
  • View From the Canoe – a very lyrical, calm movement with enough ease to help your students learn voicing and beautiful nuance. This movement is in minuet and trio form.
  • Snakin’ Through the Bayou – Lots of options are open on this movement! Students can snap instead of using their RH in some places, or even invite a friend to snap in places while they play. It also feature a place where students can hiss like a snake if they’d like (optional of course). Lots of creative ways to perform this movement!

Program Note for The Soggy Sonatina

The piano teachers of Katy Music Teachers Association in Katy Texas commissioned me to compose an earlier level sonatima. I found myself very fascinated by the numerous bayous and the animals that live in the bayous around Katy! While researching, I noticed Buffalo Bayou was close and really wanted to know where it originated. While Houston might claim Buffalo Bayou because it runs through Houston, it actually originates close to Katy, Texas. There are springs close to Katy that are part of the source of this famous bayou and I have always been fascinated by springs. How does water just bubble up from the ground?

I found myself fascinated by all the water that is around Katy and I even watched a video of an alligator being rescued from water in that city! I decided that the movements would be centered around Katy’s bayous and the life in and around bayous.

Purchase the studio license of The Soggy Sonatina for unlimited reproductions!

If you purchase the printed sheet music, you can only use it for one student. But if you purchase the studio license of The Soggy Sonatina, you’ll get a license to make as many prints of all three movements for as many students as you ever teach! It’s like getting an unlimited supply of a sonatina that you know your students will love!

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6 reviews for The Soggy Sonatina

  1. Karne Thomasson

    My 10 year old student performed 2 of the 3 movements of Soggy Sonatina for our December Recital. She has loved it from the beginning and did a good job on it. Not only that, but my 11 year old student exclaimed: “I love that piece, I want to do that, too.” Success!

  2. Emily Laney

    Your compositions have been so well-received in my studio this fall. I started two 6th graders as beginners and they loved The Bold Escape and Savannah Stalk (actually had people rather arguing over who could play it at recital!) and the lovely View from a Canoe (the second movement from The Soggy Sonatina).

  3. Kay Kidd

    At last, a piece for a student who so wanted to play something fast, but has difficulty with that. She played this with ease, and just can’t get enough of Springs and Sprinkles. Now she’ll start learning the others.

  4. Melissa Toedtman

    The Soggy Sonatina , esp. the Snake movt. 3 and Buzzer Beater has lit a fire under one of the most taciturn 11 year olds I’ve ever taught in all my 50 years of teaching.

  5. Susan

    I love the way the water colors change with the use of petaling in part 1
    Then glide so gracefully with the canoe part 2
    The snake is in part 3 absolutely smirking jive

  6. Skye McManus

    Soggy sonatina is a gem! And View from the Canoe is my favorite piece of yours. One of my students just played it on his recital and the audience just raved!! His favorite was snakin through the bayou !!😀

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