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MUT6576
Contemporary Styles

Listening List

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* LIST NO. 1 *

Minimalism

Tom Johnson (18 November 1939 - )

• Vermont Rhythms (2008)
  
• An Hour for Piano (1971)
  
  

  Steve Reich (3 October 1936 - )

• Music for 18 Musicians (1976) (score)
  
• Piano Phase (1967) (score)
  
• Proverb (1995) (score)
  
  

  Phillip Glass (31 January 1937 - )

• Einstein on the Beach (1976)
  
• Piano Etudes Book 1, No. 1 (2014)
  
• Mad Rush (1979) (score)
  
  

  John Adams (15 February 1947 - )

• American Berserk (2001) (score)
  
• Chairman Dances, Nixon in China (1985) (score)
  
  

  Post-Minimalism

  Louis Andriessen (6 June 1939 - )

• Registers for Piano (1962)
  
• Menuet voor Marianne (1983)
  
• Image de Moreau (1999)
  
  

  Ingram Marshall (10 May 1942 - )

• Fog Tropes (1981)
  
• Gradual Requiem (1980)
  
• Authentic Presence (2001)
  
  

  Paul Lansky (18 June 1944 - )

• Night Traffic (1990)
  
• Semi-Suite (1998)
  
• It All Adds Up to One (2009)
  
  

  New Simplicity

  Henryk Górecki (6 December 1933 - 12 November 2010)

• Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra, Op. 40 (1980) (score)
  
• Three Lullabies, Op. 49 (1980) (score)
  
• Amen, Op. 34 (1975) (score)
  
  

  Arvo Pärt (11 September 1935 - )

• Hymn to a Great City, for two pianos (1984)
  
• Annum per annum, for organ (1980)
  
• Tabula Rasa (1977) (score)
  
  

  John K. Travener (28 January 1944 - 12 November 2013)

• Pratirupa (2003)
  
• The Lamb (1982)
  
• Eternal Memory (1991)
  
  

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  * LIST NO. 2 *

  Polystylism

  Gavin Bryars (16 January 1943 - )

• Ramble on Cortona (2010)
  
• The North Shore (1993)
  
  

  Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 - 14 March 2016)

• Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) (score)
  
• Second Fantasia On John Taverner's In Nomine For Orchestra (1964)
  
• Symphony No.8 `Antartic' (2000)
  
  

  Alfred Schnittke (24 November 1934 - 3 August 1998)

• Concerto Grosso No. 1 (1976/77) (score)
  
• Symphony No. 1 (1972) (score)
  
• Piano Quintet (1972/76) (score)
  
  

  Post Modernism

  William Bolcom (26 May 1938 - )

• Graceful Ghost Rag (1970) (score)
  
• Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1988)
  
  • Mvt 1
    
  • Mvt 2
    
  • Mvt 3
    
• Symphony No. 5 (1989)
  
  

  Elliott Carter (11 December 1908 - 5 November 2012)

• Variations for Orchestra (1975)
  
• Catenaires for Piano (2006)
  
• Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord (1952)
  
  

  György Ligeti (28 May 1923 - 12 June 2006)

• Études for Piano (1985-2001) (score)
  
• Lux Aeterna (1966) (score)
  
• Double Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Orchestra (1972) (score)
  
  

  Spectralism

  Gérard Grisey (17 June 1946 - 11 November 1998)

• Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (1998) (score)
  
• Transitoires (1980/81) (score)
  
• Partiels (1975) (score)
  
  

  Kaija Saariaho (14 October 1952 - )

• Prelude for Piano (2007) (score)
  
• Six Japanese Gardens for Percussion (1994) (score)
  
• L'amour de loin excerpt (2000)
  
  

  Ana-Maria Avram (12 September 1961 - 1 August 2017)

• Voices of the Desert (2005) (score)
  
• Swarms (III) for string orchestra (1993/rev2009) (score)
  
• Orbit of Eternal Grace (1998) (score)
  
  

  Tristan Murail (11 March 1947 - )

• Ethers (1978) (score)
  
• L'Esprit Des Dunes (1993/94)
  
• La Mandragore for Piano (1993) (score)
  
  

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  * LIST NO. 3 *

  Totalism

  John Luther Adams (23 January 1953 - )

• Dream in White on White (1992)
  
• Nunataks (Solitary Peaks) for piano (2007) (score)
  
• Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (1991/1995)
  
  

  Kyle Gann (21 November 1955 - )

• Long Night (1980/81)
  
• Etude No. 10: Unquiet Night (2004)
  
• Concord Spiral (1991/95)
  
  

  Larry Polansky (16October 1954 - )

• Lonesome Road, The Crawford Variations (2001)
  
• 51 Melodies (1991) (score)
  
• for Jim, I. Preamble (for Jim Tenney) (1995)
  
  

  New Complexity

  Brian Ferneyhough (16 January 1943 - )

• Lemma-Icon-Epigram (2004/05)
  
• String Quartet No. 2 (1979/80) (score)
  
• String Quartet No. 6 (2010) (score)
  
  

  James Dillon (29 October 1950 - )

• Physis II for large orchestra (1991)
  
• Nine Rivers: 8. Introitus (1989/90)
  
• Piano Concerto "Andromeda" (2005/06)
  
  

  Michael Finnissy (17 March 1946 - )

• English Country Tunes (1977) (score)
  
• Snowdrift for Piano (1972) (score)
  
• Janne (2015)
  
  

  - last update 10 October 2019 -