Here it is, the finale to my fifth sonata (you should listen to the other movements first by the way). My sonata was originally intended to have four movements, but it just wasn't working out. Therefore, in place of a slow movement followed by a fast finale, we have both in the same movement. This movement is one big build to the end. With this movement, I was really trying to make things on a grander scale. Previously I've just made these fast, epic movements, but there's not a whole lot of subtlety in them. This I hoped to change, with more dynamic modulation, tempo modulation, and mixed meter than I've done before. I think I've succeeded to a decent extent, and this is a very powerful movement in my opinion as a result. Though, two things that drive me crazy: the way Finale does crescendos and the stupid occasional burst of static my reverb plugin adds. Oh how I wish for a live performance...

There's a lot going on in here too. There's a main theme, which is in a 17/8 time signature (kinda like that other piece I wrote in c minor; you know the one :3). We also have transformations of parts of the first movement in here, as well as the second. There's also cameos from my second and third sonatas in here (pretty easy to spot in this case). I even encoded the first seven non-zero Fibonacci numbers in one part. The ending I'm really proud of though. I'm usually not very good at endings, but this one is pretty cool. Right at 8:42 we get the main motif of the sonata followed by its inversion, the retrograde, and the retrograde inverse all augmented and presented together for the first time, and it builds using some parallel fifths to the ending, which is pretty awesome :3

Anyway, I'm really proud of this sonata. C minor has always been my favorite key, and this is definitely some of my best work. I hope you enjoy it!

First movement - Allegro Deciso
Second movement - Scherzando

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