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