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AUSTRALIAN COMPOSITION

20th century Australian piano music

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.

Reference & Research Book News, August 2005

Table of Contents:

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

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