Twentieth Century Piano Music

Divided into four sections, each covering a key histo rical period, this trenchant examination of the development of different styles and compositional techniques integrates historical and artistic details with a sophisticated and generally accessible approach to the music. Burge (piano, Eastman School of Music) offers cogent suggestions for the performance of Copland, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Cage, Crumb, and others. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Includes Stravinsky's 3 Movements from Petrushka, Rag Time, Piano-Rag-Music, more; Schoenberg's Symphony, Op. 9, 3 Piano Pieces, Op. 11, more; and Hindemith's 1922: Suite for Piano, Op. 26. Authoritative editions.

In the late-19th and 20th centuries, composers produced a wealth of innovative piano music, venturing in new directions and seeking new sounds. The music produced during those transitional years is considered "20th-century music." Works by 37 composers are included in this comprehensive survey of 20th-century piano music; they range in difficulty from intermediate through early-advanced levels and cover the widest range of styles and idioms from that genre. Dr. Hinson has provided historical and biographical background and performance notes.

The early 20th century was a period of dramatic changes, when composers were venturing in new directions and seeking new sounds. The pairing of the Anthology of 20th Century Piano Music with the Piano Practices in Early 20th Century Piano Music DVD provides pianists with a unique opportunity to hear informed performances of the music they are studying. On the DVD, Dr. Hinson shares historical anecdotes about the composers represented, using examples by Bartk, Debussy, Joplin, Grainger, Hindemith, MacDowell, Coleridge-Taylor, Satie and Schoenberg from the Anthology.

Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.

Provides piano students with carefully chosen collections of piano music from the 19th and 20th centuries, an ample selection of music featuring a large assortment of composers and styles.

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.