Provides invaluable information regarding the rich heritage of Australian modernist piano music over the course of the 20th century.
List of Musical Examples Acknowledgment Preface The First Generation Composers of Their Time: Early Modernists and Neoclassicists Composers Looking Back: Late Romantics and the Nineteenth-Century Legacy The "Australian" Composers The Second Generation Post-1945 Modernism Retrospective Composers More "Australian" Composers Sitsky's Keyboard Music The Third Generation The Next Wave of Modernism Minimalism and Maximalism Pluralism: Popular Music/Jazz/Neotonality "Australian" Composers: The Next Generation The Youngest Composers The Australian Piano Concerto Conclusion Bibliography Appendix: Database of Piano Works Considered
Larry Sitsky is Head of the Composition Department, School of Music, Australian National University. He is also the author of Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde (Greenwood Press, 2002).
Australian Piano Music us abundantly illustrated with well-chosen
excerpts from the scores discussed, and the individual treatment of
each composer makes it an effective reference text, easily
consulted for commentary on a particular composer. Those wishing to
gain an overview of Australian music and cultural history will do
well by reading it from beginning to end. An appendix, listing
publication details of the works discussed, will help pianists
seeking to explore new and unfamiliar repertoire.
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Composer and pianist Sitsky offers a detailed overview of
20th-century Australian piano music. Using a wealth of musical
examples, he explores the ways the genre has developed from the
work of early modernist composers such as Margaret Sutherland
through the contemporary jazz of pianist Simplicius Cheong.
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