[NewMusic] 20th century PIANO sheet music

[Katherine Setar]

Hi Everyone,

I've recently been looking into intermediate-level 
atonal/twelve-tone/pitch cluster music for one of my piano students. You 
might want to look into some other perhaps less-well-known composers of 
piano music:

Ross Lee Finney:  "24 Inventions," or "Youth's Companion"  I've also 
been using these pieces for simple analysis, as the composer give 
copious clues on analyzing pitch class sets/rows.  Incidentally, Finney 
also has a collection called "32 Piano Games" which is appropriate for 
early grades.  All of these pieces are in the UC Berkeley library and 
are published by Peters.

Ernest Krenek:  "Twelve Short Piano Pieces."  Intermediate 12 tone 
pieces withe very obvious rows.  It's on my list of things to order. I 
have one in the Schirmer 36 TWENTIETH CENTURY PIANO PIECES anthology.

Luigi Dallapiccola  Late Intermediate/Advanced 12 tone:  "Quaderno 
Musicale di Annaliebera."  It's on my list of things to order. I have 
one in the Burkhart Anthology.

Peters also has an anthology of easy 20th century piano works.  It 
includes works by Charles Wuorinen, Alan Hovhaness, etc.

Also, I vaguely remember that Kyle Gann reviewed an anthology of 
sonatinas by important composers of new music.  Did I dream this, or 
does someone else remember reading about this anthology also?

Best wishes,

Katherine Setar

newmusic-request at music.mills.edu wrote:
> 
> . . . which is why I recommend hanging out in the Berkeley music  
> library. And if you find pieces you like, there's always the  
> photocopier. . .

But try to find the composer and give him the royalties!