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Australian piano music of the twentieth century.


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 piano music of the twentieth century.

Sitsky, Larry. (Music reference collection; no.87)

Praeger, [c]2005

335 p.

$97.95

Composer and pianist Sitsky (composition, Australian National U.) 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 Lists of composers by style, time period, or technique: Modernist composers Russia/Soviet Union
  • Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
  • Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
  • Evgeni Kostitsyn (born 1963)
 such as Margaret Sutherland Margaret Sutherland (November 20, 1897 - 12 August 1984) was an Australian composer, pioneering women's involvement in music.

Her major works include The Four Temperaments, Haunted Hills, and the opera The Young Kabbarli.
 through the contemporary jazz of pianist Simplicius Cheong. The volume lacks a subject index. Sitsky is also the author of Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde (Greenwood Greenwood.

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