Twentieth-Century Piano Music

The piano is central to the music of the twentieth century. Here Burge, widely acclaimed for introducing much of this literature to the repertoire, offers a personal and inviting overview of the often challenging music written for solo piano during this century.

Divided into four sections, each covering a key historical period with musical examples, this resource examines the development of different styles and compositional techniques, and integrates historical and artistic details. Burge offers cogent performance suggestions for selected works of Aaron Copland, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, John Cage, George Crumb, and others.

Following the main text is a Selected Bibliography, a Chronological List of Works and Publishers, Notes, Discography, and Index. A valuable addition to this paperback reissue is a CD of Burge's performances of several works discussed in the text. [Cloth edition 0-02-870321-9 originally published by Schirmer Books in 1990]

CONTENIDO:

Preface

Part 1: From 1900 to the End of World War I
1.- Claude Debussy
2.- Arnold Schoenberg
3.- Charles Ives
4.- Maurice Ravel
5.- Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff

Part 2: Between the Two World Wars
7.- Béla Bartók
8.- Igor Stravinsky
9.- Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern
10.- Paul Hindemith
11.- Sergei Prokofiev
12.- "Les Six" and Others in Europe
13.- Aaron Copland
14.- Other Composers in America
15.- Oliver Messiaen

Part 3: The Postwar Period
16.- Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez
17.- Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio
18.- Other Composers in Europe
19.- John Cage
20.- Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, and the MidCentury Piano Sonata
21.- The American AvantGarde

Part 4: The 1970s and 1980s
22.- George Crumb
23.- Donald Martino
24.- Frederic Rzewski and William Albright
25.- Composers in the Far East and Europe
26.- Other Composers in America

Selected Bibliography
Chronological List of Works and Publishers
Notes
Discography
Index
About the Author
CD Tack Listing
- Alban Berg: Sonate für Klavier, Op. 1 (1908)
- Béla Bartók: Sonate (1926)
- Luciano Berio: Cinque Variazioni (1953, rev. 1966)
- Georges Crumb: Makrokosmos, vol. I (1972)
- William Albright: The Dream Rags (1970)
(Total time: 78:58)