20th-century piano lit
Listening lists
20th-century listening materials
(I will notify you in advance of any changes. Please note that unless otherwise specified, you should be able to recognize individual movements in multi-movement works such as sonatas, concertos, etc.)
For Exam #1 (October 6)
-Faure: Nocturne #13 in b minor
-Albeniz: Iberia, Book I
-Granados: #2 and #6 from Goyescas
-Debussy: Estampes (recognize individual movements); L’isle joyeuse; Images, bk II; Selection of Preludes (Bk 1, Voile (#2); What the West wind saw (#7); Cathedrale engloutie (#10); Book 2- Bruyeres (#5); General Lavine (#6); La terrasse des audiences (#7)); Etude in 4ths, Etude in 6ths
-Ravel: Sonatine, Miroirs, Gaspard de la Nuit, Tombeau de Couperin (for each Ravel work, recognize individual movements), Concerto in G
-Scriabin: Etudes, Op. 42 (recognize work from individual movts, but do not need to know which # was played); Sonata #5; Preludes, Op. 74 (recognize work from individual #s but do not need to know which # was played)
-Berg: Sonate
-Schoenberg: Op. 11 (recognize and know individual #s; Op. 19 (recognize from individual movts, but do not need # of movt);
For Exam #2 (November 3)
-Schoenberg: Op. 23, #1, #2, and #5; Op. 33a
-Webern: Variations
-Ives: Alcotts from the Concord Sonata; Some South-paw Pitching
-Cowell: Aeolian Harp; The Banshee; Exultation
-Crawford: Four Preludes for Piano (#6-#9)
-Copland: Variations
-Janacek: Sonata 1.X.1905; From the Overgrown Path, bk1, #1 and #10
-Stravinsky: Petrushka (piano arrangement)
-Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op. 50, #1 and #2
-Prokofiev: Sarcasms 1 and 2; Sonatas 3, 7, 8, 9; Concertos #2 and #3
-Bartok: Suite, Op. 14; Sonata; 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythms from Mikrokosmos, Bk 6 (recognize individual #s but do not need to know which number was played), Concerto #3
-Medtner: Op. 42, #1 “Russian Folktale”, from Fairy Tales
Final exam:
-Copland: Sonata
-Ginastera: Piano sonata #1
-Barber: Piano sonata; Excursions
-Carter, Piano sonata
-Hindemith, Praeludium, Fugue 1, and Fugue 2 from Ludus Tonalis
-Shostakovitch: Preludes and Fugues #1 in C and # 15 in Db
-Schnittke: Praludium and Fugue
-Messiaen: Premiere communion de la Vierge (#11) and Regards des Prophetes, des bergers, et des Mages (#16) from Vingt regards sur le’nfant Jesus; Ile de feu 2
-Dallipicola: Quaderno musicale di Annalibera (recognize from individual numbers, but do not need to identify which number)
-Cage: In a Landscape; Bacchanale
-Babbitt: Semi-simple variations
-Rochberg: Nach Bach
-Crumb: A Little Suite for Christmas
-Takemitsu: Rain-tree sketch
-Tan Dun, Eight memories in Water Color
-Adams: China Gates
-Muczynski: Masks
-Ligeti: Musica Ricercata (recognize individual #s but do not need to identify which one was played); “Cordes vides”, “Fanfares”, and “Arc-en-ciel” from Etudes, bk 1; “Fem” from Etudes, bk 2
-Bolcom: Rag infernal (#8) and Hi-jinks #11 from New Etudes; The Dead Moth Tango
-Harbison, Gatsby Etudes
-Liebermann: Impromptu #1 from Three Impromptus
-Wernick, Piano Sonata #2
