Sunday, November 23, 2025

four scripts for writing sonata expositions using 12-bar blues for theme 1

It took a while to put this one together but I've finally written an essay on four basic scripts for writing sonata expositions using a 12-bar blues theme as a starting point.  

 

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c030987

 

When you reach a philosophical impasse, you need to get to a more basic idea. You need to raise your assumptions about your field to a higher level of abstraction. If you do this successfully, what used to be basics will turn out to be special cases of more general principles. Einstein's physics does not invalidate Newton's. It simply reveals Newton's laws to be special cases of more general ones. The discovery of DNA, a substance which controls the intracellular synthesis of proteins and is thus basic to life itself, does not knock out all of biochemistry up to that breakthrough, but rather forces a reevaluation of many of its assumptions.

 

So let us revivify the problem of pitch as some composers have begun to revivify the problem of metrics. There is no need to rule out chance, statistics, serialism. But let us also pursue, still more subtly, the techniques of rational proportion, which are capable of vastly more than has hitherto been asked of them. What can be grasped with equal alacrity by ear, by mathematics, and by intuitive feeling is the best material for art. And this intelligibility is not a matter of mere conditioning; some relations are naturally more easily understood than others. I am interested in a spectrum from the most obvious to the most subtle

 

Maximum Clarity and other writings on music, page 111

Ben Johnston

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Questioning the validity of standard sonata-form concepts is about as old as the concepts themselves. Indeed, almost every discussion of musical form begins with a warning to avoid shoving music into prefabricated, formal “jelly moulds.” Inevitably, this is followed by proposing a new jelly-mould into which to shove the music. (page 4)

 

Understanding musical form in relation to a series of motions toward goals continued to play an important role in music analysis during the eighteenth century onward, and it is of central importance in most musical discussions today. However, to a far greater extent than witnessed in the eighteenth century, the journey metaphor of form is now combined with the metaphor of FORM AS A CONTAINER. That is, when explaining musical form, musicians have taken to describe the motions toward goals as embraced within distinct areas, regions, groups, zones, blocks, spaces, and the like.  This heavy reliance on “container metaphors” is also reflected in the common depiction of forms by means of brackets, boxes, circles, and similar graphic tools developed during the early nineteenth century that suggest formal containers. (page 7)

 

Journeys Through Galant Expositions,

L. Poundie Burstein

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While the Fathers rejected the receptacle idea of space, the Medievals introduced it into the West with very far-reaching effects. This called for an examination of the role given to it in Reformation thought, Newtonian science, and subsequent Protestant philosophy and theology, in which a deistic dualism came to be built into the fabric of Western thought. I have not attempted here to show the developments in Reformed, Anglican, or Roman theology in relation to this, but have concentrated on German Lutheran thought which has certainly made the pace for much modern theology. (pages vi-vii)

 

Space, Time and Incarnation

Thomas Forsyth Torrance

(Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1969)

Copyright © T. F. Torrance, 1969

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... the vast majority of Christians are not theologians ... the questions that worry the layman are both more interesting and more difficult than those which are the favored subjects of discussion by theologians

Faith, Hope and Love, page 11

Emil Brunner

 

The demons scholars can most wish us to be protected from are the theories their teachers forced them to learn which they would rather not have to pass on to us. It may fall to every generation of scholars to decide which theories are angels to be welcomed and which theories are demons to be cast out.

 

I have discovered that contemporary music theorists and modern Christian theologians writing about the Trinity have something in common, they both warn us that we desperately need to jettison, or seriously modify, the receptacle as a metaphor for talking about time and space. 

 

The problem is not simply that we think of time and space as receptacles. We are flesh and blood and so we live within those given limits.  The problem is that the wrong kind of receptacle concept of time and space becomes the box within all our thinking gets trapped and we apply that to musical analysis.

 

Paradoxically classical music snobs and blues purists can both embrace the idea that “this” material (blues) can’t fit into “that” box (“musical argument”, a circumlocution for, say, a sonata form).  As it happens both the blues purist and the classical music snob are both wrong. 

 

The only reason you can’t write a sonata exposition using blues ideas is if you have stuck yourself inside of the box of the idea that purports that such things cannot (and ought not) be done. 

 

This has been one of the demons of theory I have sensed music theorists have been trying to protect music students from. The habit of pitting metaphors against each other within theory seems to be commonplace.  Richard Taruskin wrote that the metaphor of space and the metaphor of language are incompatible but this need only be the case if you pit the metaphors against each other, as scholars so often like to do. 

 

If you allow the metaphors to mutually indwell each other they no longer conflict and this is what happens in sensory integration and it is also how Father, Son and Spirit are described as mutually indwelling each other in Christian Trinitarian reflections ranging from John of Damascus and Thomas Aquinas in medieval theology up through to Thomas Torrance in the twentieth century.  Just because in musicology and theology we have Western writers pitting sight against hearing or vice versa doesn’t mean we have to confine ourselves to the container of such thinking.

 

In the realm of sight the combination of yellow and blue creates green and the identity of the two colors is, to our sense of sight, lost yet in musical space one pitch does not become another and the two notes can coexist in musical time and space.  This capacity for multiples simultaneously existing in the same space is what we need to remember as we recalibrate concepts of musical time and space to show that if more than one thing can fit into the container of a timespace or spacetime then there is no need to box ourselves in with some idea that there are “inherent” limitations in the nature of musical sounds.

 

There are, I propose, at least four flexible scripts you can use to write sonata expositions using blues and all that is required is to recalibrate, rather than reject, the receptacle concept of musical time and space. If in Christian theology there is a current of thought which pits hearing against sight, then we need to explore how sight and sound are integrated as senses so that we proprioceptively engage the world we live in with integrated senses. As L Poundie Burstein put it in Journeys Through Galant Expositions, we have an opportunity to stop pitting one theory against another and can draw upon every conceptual tool at hand to look at the world we live in and the music we hear within it.

 

Ever since I wrote Ragtime and Sonata Forms back in 2020 I have kept working toward new possibilities in thinking through how to apply recent ideas and insights in music theory toward the goal of writing sonata forms using blues, ragtime and rock materials.  If it is possible to write a sonata using ragtime strains then it is surely possible to write a sonata form that uses blues materials. 

 

This is something I’ve been working on for years but here I want to write specifically about blues-based approaches to sonata expositions.  That blues themes have been written in symphonic works hardly needs more than a passing mention since the symphonies of William Grant Still and James P Johnson should be widely known. William Levi Dawson has also written a symphony in which blues material appears. The beauty of their symphonic works withstanding, here in 2025 the symphonic tradition is niche and marginal. There are also prejudices and boundaries erected by partisans of blues and classical music going in both directions with respect to the “authenticity” of a symphonic blues and the “legitimacy” or “seriousness” of the proposal that blues vocabulary can be taken up toward the end of a musical “argument” in “serious” music.

 

The partisans in both cases are disastrously wrong. 

 

If I confined myself to what classical music theory textbooks supposedly told me I would have to believe that V never goes to IV in classical music.  I know firsthand that V7/V to V to IV progressions show up half a dozen time in Matiegka’s Grand Sonata II and also in his Sonata progressive Op. 31 No. 3.  As a guitarist I can admire the playing of Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Tampa Red, and Charley Patton in much the same way I can admire the guitar compositions of Leo Brouwer, Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, Atanas Ourkouzounov, Nikita Koshkin, Angelo Gilardino and Dusan Bogdanovic. I not only don’t see any reason to elevate one set of guitarist composers and denigrate the other I consider good and necessary to admire both sets of guitarist composers equally because I think of them all as composers.  I can hear a V-IV chord change in a Robert Johnson song and a Matiegka sonata equally well.

 

If we believe lies told us by music historians from both blues and classical music we won’t be in a position to realize that blues sonatas are practical and have always been feasible. There is no reason the vocabulary of blues precludes its use in sonata forms. There is no reason that sonata forms have to be approached from a rigid top-down monothetic classification paradigm.  If we can hardly avoid thinking of musical works as containers that have modular building blocks that are themselves containers then we can go block by block down the proverbial street and see that the vocabulary of 20th century blues is just as compatible with a sonata form as 18th century Austro-Germanic or Italian galant vocabularies.  The journey is the challenge, the delineations of blocks of musical timespace are the thing.  If music is fluid architecture and architecture is frozen music the axiom breaks down precisely at the point that a house can’t be made of cardboard and stand long but the house of a musical work can be made with any kind of “material”.  There’s no reason the material of that house of sound can’t be a 12-bar blues.

 

For sake of brevity and convenience I will stick to 12-bar blues, but with the explicit understanding that there’s no actual obligation for blues to be so rigidly defined.  Blues is something I regard as a highly flexible vocabulary of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic gestures rather than a schematic 12-measure fixity.

 

I am relying on Robert Gjerdingen’s work on galant schemas as a starting point.  He has outlined musical tropes and topics from 18th century musical dramas and chamber music at length in a book, Music in the Galant Style.  You don’t need to know what a Romanesca or a Prinner is to understand that a schema is a kind of musical building block.  For my purposes the 12-bar blues is a self-contained schema.  We could reference Ellington’s “Black and Tan Fantasy” main theme or “Kind-Hearted Woman”. The thematic materials are whatever appears in the functional circuit of the blues theme, those twelve measures. The scripts I’m outlining should work just fine with themes any number of measures long.

 

Now, finally, I move on to the four scripts

 

SONATA EXPOSITION SCRIPT ONE: BASIC BLUES CONTINUOUS VARIATION

 

The simplest way to write a blues sonata exposition is to just write a 12-bar blues theme and create two variations on the theme that fulfill the syntactic script of a monothematic sonata exposition. There’s no reason you have to have two themes in an exposition. Your first theme is your blues. The second statement of the blues performs the work of modulating to your next key and the third statement of your blues is in that new key and fulfills the function of a Theme 2. 

 

As a guitarist I would say the easiest way to do this is to have a blues in E minor and then figure out how to reintroduce the theme in the second variation in G major.  This is easily done.  I have already mentioned that Matiegka used a V7/V to V to IV progression in his sonatas. In a slow blues sonata exposition all we have to do is present a blues theme in E minor; present a new variation of that theme in E minor; and then when we get to the conventional V-IV(iv) turnaround that is typical for a 12-bar blues we just transform the tonic chord into a subtonic chord.  Instead of an “i” we go with a “VII”.  B major goes to A or A minor and then down to D.  For the second variation of the blues theme you can then begin in G major.  In just 24 measures you have yourself a sonata exposition that fulfills the Theme 1 and Theme 2 functions of a sonata form while really having yourself a monothematic sonata exposition on a blues theme.

 

How would that look in terms of a spatial analysis?



 

How might such a sonata sound?  Here’s a possibility.

https://youtu.be/p3erzPRWiW8

 

The advantage of this kind of bare bones blues variation monothematic sonata exposition is that the second variation achieves the work of a modulating transition yet there’s no formally delineated separate “block” of sound.  This means that you could make very few changes to the first variation on your blues theme or you could make substantial changes so long as you keep the basic groove in tact and so long as you make sure that your V-iv-VII pivot is clearly articulated.

 

A second advantage to this blues sonata exposition script is that it can invite embellishment or even improvisation in the transitional variation.  If you know you have one theme across the movement then you can write out a variation-sonata hybrid knowing that at select points across the form you can compose or improvise new material and/or invite a performer to do the same.

 

https://youtu.be/GYzSOvHnD2w

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A disadvantage to this approach is you could wear out the welcome of your blues theme very swiftly. You won’t want to go longer than a few minutes but this is fine because many blues songs are just a few minutes long anyway. You would need to be careful how you constructed your blues theme so that when material comes back in the recapitulation you won’t bore your listeners and yourself.  This is a reason it would be good to remember that the transitional variation in the recapitulation can be as varied as the modulating variation was in the exposition.  If, for instance, you figured out that you can set your blues theme in canon against itself at the octave at the half-measure the retransition variation would be the place to show that off. 

 

The return of the blues theme in a recapitulation would not require an exact restatement, either—you could have the climactic variation of your blues theme be the fanciest or most impressive variation on the theme you might have in your arsenal of options.  This script deliberately blurs the boundaries between monothematic sonata form and continuous variation form.  This may mean that while it looks very easy on paper it may be one of the more difficult exposition scripts to pull off in practice.  There is no one way to make a blues sonata and there are more flexible scripts to go.

 

SONATA EXPOSITION SCRIPT TWO: BLUES AND “HIT ME”/VAMP ALTERNATION

 

One of the significant pitfalls of a traditional “textbook” approach to defining sonata forms is you are primed to think of Theme 1 and Theme 2 as the real points of contrast in an exposition, with the transition being (merely) whatever material you used to get from Point A to Point B. It is possible to write monothematic sonata forms, for instance, and in such cases the transitional material has a different relationship to the theme.

 

To put this another way, contrasts within a sonata exposition would come not so much  between Theme 1 and Theme 2 but between thematic presentation of those themes and transitional passages.  In a monothematic sonata/variation script there can still be contrasts in theme presentations that resemble Theme 1 and Theme 2, such as contrasts figuration, registration, harmonization and cadence formulas (ending your theme on a half-cadence in its second form rather than an authentic cadence in its first form, for example). Yet these contrasting variations of the blues theme are variations. The real formal contrast would be between the variations of the theme and any transitional passage(s) used to get from one variation of the theme to the next. 

 

This is the conceptual “in” for Script Two.  If you have just a single 12-bar blues theme as your theme then the role of Theme 1 and Theme 2 will always be blues.  In discussing this script there’s not much that needs to be said about the blues theme. If in Script 1 there are no independent transitions in Script 2 there is transitional material. For blues-based sonata scripts the transitional material is the most important material you can choose because it will be doing all the work of modulation and transition and, in some cases, even introducing your blues theme.

 

To reiterate, in a monothematic blues sonata form the formal contrast is not between “Theme 1” and “Theme 2” it is between theme and transition.  There could be any number of ways to compose a transition but for the sake of this essay I only want to discuss one kind of transition and it has three components.

 

Taking up Robert Gjerdingen’s idea of schemas with names such as the Romanesca or the Prinner I propose a schema compatible with blues and rock-based musical materials.  Let’s call it the Take Me to the Bridge schema or the Hit Me schema.  I shouldn’t have to say I’m naming this after the catchphrases of James Brown here in 2025 but I should give credit where it is do and it can’t hurt to assume that somebody who might be reading has somehow never heard “of” James Brown nor had the pleasure of hearing his music.  If that’s you go fix that problem before reading further.

 

The Hit Me schema has three parts: 1) The Riff, 2) Hit Me (or Take Me to the Bridge), and 3) The Groove.  We will discuss them in order.  Only the first two parts are actually essential to the schema. 

 

The Riff is pretty much what the name suggests, some kind of singular riff that can be riff-bashed as much as you want or played twice.  Rock listeners won’t need any further explanation but for people who aren’t steeped in rock or blues The Riff is a four-measure line that gets repeated and has a clearly identifiable melodic and rhythmic contour without necessarily having any clear harmony.  “Sunshine of Your Love” by Cream is an easy example of The Riff from a rock song.  The vamp in Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” is also a great Riff and in neither case do these riffs lead to key changes but they are great examples of what kind of riff The Riff generally is.  If you can sing it off the top of your head after having heard it many times that’s what counts. One of my favorite riffs would be the one at 0:46 in John Lee Hooker’s “Hobo Blues”. 

 

In the Hit Me schema you play the Riff at least twice.  The Riff can be a four-measure or eight-measure idea that you use to introduce your theme which then takes on modulating functions later.  It can be pentatonic or diatonic but whatever form your Riff takes it needs to retain a good melodic and rhythmic profile across multiple modes.  If you have a Riff in E minor pentatonic it should have a good feel to it if you play it in E major, E Lydian, E dorian, E mixolydian and other modes. 

 

The Riff is the part of the Hit Me schema that is going to change the most and invites the most room for musical change even when The Riff itself doesn’t change.  You may play The Riff a second time and chromatically change a note so that a pentatonic C major line that lands on C lands on C sharp on the second pass. It’s best to have the Riff in the Hit Me schema be a single melodic line so that any and all changes take on large strategic, contextual significance.  If you change a note of your Riff you invite a change of harmony and harmonic trajectory.  If you play the Riff twice then on the second pass you can create a new harmonic context.  An A minor pentatonic blues Riff played once is in A minor but the second time you play it could have an F major to G major to C major oblique motion change of key despite no change in the mode of the blues riff. 

 

In summary, The Riff part of the Hit Me schema will be used both to modulate from one key to another and to simply affirm whatever key you have already reached.  It’s the single most important part of this script.  This point bears repetition for emphasis, much like a blues riff. The Riff is the most important component of the Hit Me schema because it does all the work of modulation and presentation of the mode or key region you’re in.  The Riff should not just sound good in as many modes as possible, you should also be able to have a pleasing line if you turn it upside down. 

 

However many changes you make in the Riff you can append it with a cadential gesture--this is the Hit Me, or Take Me to the Bridge, the second part of the schema under discussion.  A schema can be divided into several parts which themselves may

 

function as schemas.  Think of it as riffs within riffs, fractals of a larger whole and this will become easy to understand—ingredients in a recipe. The Hit Me can be as simple as eight block chords pounded out in common time on the dominant of whatever key you are in with which you make your next blues variation.  If you are going to G major from E minor then the Hit Me can be eight D or D7 chords pounded out or strummed on your guitar like you’re Pete Townsend of The Who.  Or it could be the straight eight note chords of John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillin”.

 

The Groove is a potentially disposable part of the Hit Me Schema because if you have the right Riff the Riff can confirm whatever key you want to be in, but the Groove still has value.  If you have a dynamic Riff that has a lot of activity you will want a few measures to establish your new key.  If you get on a train and then deboard you have to deboard at a station.  The Groove is that station. It’s may be your destination in your journey but you only went to that destination to go somewhere else and that somewhere else is your next theme.  The Groove could be four to eight measures that establish the key you have just arrived in.  If you started in C minor and ended up in E flat major then The Groove gives space to let the listener (or you as a composer-performer) have some time to establish the new key.  Blues vamps don’t need any real explanation for people who know the vocabulary. 

 

Now how would this look as a set of blocks of musical space?

 



How might such a sonata exposition sound?  Well, here’s one possibility.

https://youtu.be/cDEgl3kQxBU

 

But what if you want your Hit Me transition to overlap with your blues theme?  While this script has the simplicity of contrasting its blues theme with transitional material that could get old fast.  You could vary things a bit by only using the Hit Me schema to modulate and then have different blues statements in different keys without the Hit Me schema to create variety and you could get up to nine statements, for instance, of a blues theme.  But what if you want to create more tension moving from point to point in your journey?  Having your Hit Me schema merged into the end of the 12-bar blues would do the trick.  That gets us to the third script

 

SONATA EXPOSITION SCRIPT THREE 12-BAR BLUES WITH HIT ME FUSED INTO IT

 

Conceptually there is not too much to explain here, having explained what the Hit Me schema is and does in the second script.  With this third script you have a blues theme and the Hit Me schema is incorporated into the third phrase of your 12-bar blues.  The Hit Me schema can start in the second half of the third phrase, after your V-IV chord change, for instance in a blues.  Your tonic chord becomes the point at which the blues riff you’d use in the Hit Me appears, your riff-basher, so to speak.

 

Here’s how it would look.

 



 

As to how it could sound, here’s an example.

https://youtu.be/BrLtWnVlpSw

 

Now by this point you will notice that each of these three scripts are stringently monothematic. That’s fine if you are confident that your blues material can withstand being repeated so much or you intend to create a sonata using your blues theme that will encourage improvisation in your development and recapitulation zones.  But you may feel that your blues theme is in itself just okay but needs a real contrast.  Sonata expositions are famously “supposed” to have a Theme 1 and a Theme 2 that contrast with each other in some way.  Can you create a script for a sonata exposition that starts with a blues but moves on to something else?  Of course.  That’s where the fourth script comes in

 

SONATA EXPOSITION SCRIPT FOUR 12-BAR BLUES FOR THEME 1 AND CONTRASTING IDEA FOR THEME 2

 

For sake of simplicity, I am running with the idea that the Hit Me schema in some fashion is what you may want to use for your transition in most cases.  It’s not strictly necessary to always use that schema.  At this point we’ve gotten to a sonata exposition that is so conventionally textbook people who have read about 18th and 19th century sonata expositions will need little explanation. 

 

Blues fans, however, might wonder what the contrast between Theme 1 and Theme 2 is supposed to be.  That’s a fair thing to wonder about. If your Theme 1 is a 12-bar blues then your Theme 2 could be a verse-chorus module or a verse--pre-chorus--choruse module.  L Poundie Burstein has pointed out that in 18th century sonata forms the contrast between a Theme 1 and a Theme 2 in an exposition was not necessarily always a change of mode, but a contrast in “punctuation”.  Jason Yust has pointed out in Organized Time that a second theme in a sonata exposition doesn’t even have to start on the tonic of the new key.

 

So for a blues-based sonata exposition that leaves us a lot of options.  You could use a Hit Me schema to get from one key to the next and let The Groove establish the new key.  Or your could modify the Hit Me schema so that it prepares a dominant chord that “should” resolve to the tonic of your target key but drops down to the subdominant of the new key.  It’s common enough for a blues verse to start on a real or implicit subdominant chord (John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillin” could be an example).  The great big A7 that would lead you to D major leads you to G instead.  The IV-I7 vamp in blues is common enough and makes for a solid Theme 2 starter.

 

So how the fourth script would look is this.




As to how it could sound there are a couple of examples here (for an exposition that goes from minor to relative major with a clear arrival at a new key with a contrasting theme) and here (for an exposition whose Theme 2 is arrived at by a V-IV shift within the newly attained key).

 

Owing to availability issues I’ve leaned on the music of … someone I know … because I have noticed over decades that hardly anyone seems to talk about the theoretical or practical possibilities of blues-based sonata forms.  There’s something to be said for attempting to write about a theoretical approach to sonata expositions that can draw upon some actually performed music. 

 

These four scripts are ways that you could, if you want to, write a sonata exposition using blues material.  Over the decades of my life I have noticed people say that there’s something about blues that precludes it from being used in sonata forms, whether fans of classical music or fans of blues.  There is nothing about the musical materials themselves, sounds made by people, that requires this to be so.

 

If you’ve read to the end here you may have seen the irony of my mapping out four scripts for blues-based sonata expositions using a bunch of color-coded boxes.  Well, that’s right. Even if we go with the most hardened notion of a zone of musical space as some box or receptacle there is nothing about that box that says the material you put into it can’t be blues, ragtime, country or something else.  Any kind of musical material can be put into the box of Theme 1, for instance.  Even if I don’t reject the receptacle concept of musical time and space I can demonstrate that blues-based sonata expositions are practical and show how you could make blues sonatas if you like. 

 

There may be people who read this essay and still conclude that despite my suggested scripts and any musical examples that blues-based sonatas are not possible and/or should not be made.  But I am not writing to convince those kinds of people of something they refuse to reconsider. I’m writing to people who may have been told blues and sonata forms can’t be reconciled to share with you that those people are wrong.  You and I do not need to restrict ourselves to the abject failures of imagination those nay-sayers embrace.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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