Australian piano music of the twentieth century / Larry Sitsky.

Author/creator Sitsky, Larry
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, CT : Praeger, 2005.
Descriptionxviii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Piano music--Australia. --20th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesMusic reference collection ; no. 87, 0736-7740
Music reference collection ; no. 87. ^A400332
Contents Part 1: The first generation. Composers of their time: early modernists and neoclassicists. Pianists: Hooper Brewster-Jones (1887-1949) ; Roy Agnew (1891-1944) ; Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984) ; Raymond Hanson (1913-1976) ; Dulcie Holland (1913-2000) ; Moneta Eagles (1924-2003) -- Non-pianists: Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) ; Dorian Le Gallienne (1915-1963) -- Composers looking back: late Romantics and the nineteenth-century legacy. Pianists: Ernest Hutcheson (1871-1956) ; Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881-1916) ; Percy Grainger (1882-1961) ; Katherine Parker (1886-1971) ; George Boyle (1886-1948) ; Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960 ; Alex Burnard (1900-1971) -- Mainly miniaturists: Louis Lavater (1867-1953) ; Alfred Hill (1870-1960) ; Frank Hutchens (1892-1965) ; Iris de Cairos-Rego (1894-1987) ; Rex and George de Cairos-Rego ; Lindley Evans (1895-1982) -- Non-pianists: Ernest Wunderlich (1859-1953) ; G.W.L. Marshall-Hall (11862-1915) ; Arundel Orchard (1867-1961) ; Adolphe Beutler (1882-1927) ; Edgar Bainton (1880-1956) ; Esther Rofe (1904-2000) ; Horace Perkins (1901-1986) -- Salon music composers: Marjorie Hesse (1911-1986) ; Una Bourne (1882-1974) ; Henry Stewart (1885-1930) ; Frederick Hall (1878-1956) ; Emanuel de Beaupuis (1860-1913) -- The "Australian" composers. Pianists: Mirrie Hill (1892-1986) -- Non-pianists: Henry Tate (1873-1926) ; Arthur S. Loam (1896-?) -- Part 2: The second generation. Post-1945 modernism arrives in Australia. Pianists: Felix Werder (1922) ; Don Banks (1923-1980) ; Keith Humble (1927-1995) ; Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003) ; Richard Meale (1932) ; Donald Hollier (1934) ; Bozidar Kos (1934) ; Nigel Butterley (1935) -- Non-pianists: Meta Overman (1907-1993) ; Peter Platt (1924-2000) ; Harold Allen (1930-1983) ; Tristram Cary (1925) ; Peter Tahourdin (1928) ; Lawrence Whiffin (1930) ; David Lumsdaine (1931) ; Helen Gifford (1935) ; Derek Strahan (1935) ; Jennifer Fowler (1939) ; Hellgart Mahler ; John Exton (1933) ; Stuart Davies-Slate ; Stuart Hille -- Retrospective composers. Pianists: Miriam Hyde (1913) ; Eric Gross (1926) ; Mary Mageau (1934) ; Michael Bertram (1935) ; Richard Peter Maddox (1936) -- Non-pianists: Lloyd Vick (1915) ; Noel Nickson (1919) ; Geoffrey Allen (1927) ; May Howlett (1931) ; Ralph Middenway (1932) ; David Morgan (1932) ; Colin Brumby (1933) ; Ann Carr-Boyd (1938) ; Sven Libaek (1938) ; Philip Bracanin (1942) -- More "Australian" composers. Non-pianists: James Penberthy (1917-1999) ; Peter Sculthorpe (1929) ; Betty Beath (1932) ; Don Kay (1933) -- Sitsky's keyboard music: Si Yeoo Ki -- Part 3: The third generation. The next wave of modernism. Pianists: Ann Ghandar (1943) ; Gerald Glynn (1943) ; Graham Hair (1943) ; Roger Smalley (1943) -- Non-pianists: Gillian Whitehead (1941) ; Ian Cugley (1945) ; Andrew Ford (1957) ; David Worrall (1954) ; Tim Dargaville (1962) ; John Polglase (1959) -- More modernists: Beverly Lea ; Michael Barkl ; Michael Lonsdale ; Andre Oosterbaan (1947) ; Stephen Benfall (1957) ; Raffaele Marcellino ; Claudio Pompilli (1949) ; Jim Franklin (1959) ; Michael Whiticker (1954) ; Warren Burt (1949) ; Gordon Kerry (1961) ; Ross Hazeltine (1961) ; Julian Yu (1957) -- Minimalism and maximalism. The minimalists. Robert Lloyd ; Robert Davidson ; Stephen Lalor ; Mark Pollard ; Nigel Sabin ; Moya Henderson ; Colin Spiers -- The maximalists. Chris Dench (1953) ; Michael Smetanin (1958) ; Gerard Brophy (1953) ; Riccardo Formosa (1954) -- Pluralism: popular music/jazz/neotonality. Pianists: Simplicius Cheong (1942) ; Carl Vine (1954) ; Elena Kats-Chernin (1957) ; Mark Issacs (1958) -- Non-pianists: Bruce Cale (1939) ; Martin Wesley-Smith (1945) ; Nigel Westlake (1958) ; Margaret Brandman (1951) ; Graeme Koehne (1956) ; David Joseph ; Wendy Hiscocks (1963) -- "Australian" composers: the next generation. Non-pianists: Moya Henderson (1941) ; Ross Edwards (1943) ; Robert Allworth (1943) ; Anne Boyd (1946) ; Colin Bright (1949) ; Andrew Schulz (1960) -- The youngest composers. Non-pianists: Matthew Bienick (1976) ; Stephen Adams ; Stephen Leek ; Andrew Harrison ; Elliott Gyger (1968) ; Robert Davidson (1965) -- Pianist: Alistair Noble -- Part 4: The Australian piano concerto. The anti-composer in Australian society: Kitsch is alive and well -- Appendix: Database of piano works considered.
Abstract This is the first book to comprehensively cover all of the Australian piano music of the 20th century. It is lavishly illustrated with over 300 music examples, giving a very clear picture of the various composers and styles. The composers are listed within various historical and stylistic blocks as well as within consideration of their own pianistic prowess. The large number of scores will help future researchers as well as recording and concert pianists who are searching for new and exciting repertoire.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index.
LCCN 2004043186
ISBN0313322864 (alk. paper)

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