I’ve included a very short and incomplete list of modern or contemporary
serious (classical) music. Many of my friends are unfamiliar with Modern Classical
Music. So I decided to put a list of works together to give you a place to begin
this great musical adventure and exploration into unknown and unfamiliar new
music of our contemporary western culture.
Plus, for those of you Interested In a more complete list of music by living
composers in MN and America you can get a catalogue by ‘IN NOVA’
recordings through the American Composers Forum (651) 228 1407.
Print this list and keep it around just in case,
because someday you might get a little tired of the same old commercial song
and dance band music and you may then want to try something a little different,
challenging and a little more mature.
Serious Music by serious composers of
our time cultured & educated in Western musical craft and the Art of Music. |
Robert Ashley:
Perfect lives (Private Parts) The Bar
Samuel Barber:
1) Adagio for Strings;
2) Piano Concerto.
Bela Bartok:
1) Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta;
2) Piano Concertos 1, 2, & 3;
3) The Six String Quartets.
Paul Hindemith:
Mathis Der Maler.
Benjamin Lees:
Sonata No. 4.
Luciano Berio:
1) Sinfonia;
2) Visage.
Alban Berg:
Lyric Quartet.
William Bolcom:
1) Three Ghost Rags;
2) Black Host.
Ferruccio Busoni:
The 6 Sonatinas for Piano.
Lukas Foss:
Baroque Variations.
David Diamond:
1) Concert Piece for Orchestra;
2) Rounds for Orchestra.
John Adams;
Shaker Loops.
John Cage:
1) Variations ll;
2) Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano;
3) Variations lV.
Milton Babbit:
Ensembles for Synthesizer.
Henri Pousseur:
1) Trois Visages De Liege;
2) Rimes pour differentes sources sonores.
Elliott Carter:
Elegy
George Crumb:
Makrokosmos Volume 1, 2, & 3.
Arron Copland:
1) Appalachian Spring;
2) Rodeo;
3) 3rd Symphony;
4) Organ Symphony.
Charles Ives:
1) Symphonies 2-4;
2) Three Places in New England;
3) Piano Sonata No. 2;
4) The Unanswered Question.
Gyorgy Ligetti:
Atmospheres.
Olivier Messiaen:
1) Turangalila Symphony;
2) Quartet for the End of Time;
3) Oiseaux Exotiques (40 different Bird Calls).
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Vincent Persichetti:
1) The Hollow Men;
2) Sinfonia: Janiculum (Symphony No. 9).
Darius Milhaud:
1) Aspen - Serenade;
2) La Creation du monde;
3) PROTEE Suite Symphonique No. 2;
4) Suite francaise.
Harry Partch:
1) Barstow (songs);
2) Delusion of the Fury.
Krzysztof Penderecki:
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.
S. Prokofiev:
1) Symphony No. 5;
2) Alexander Nevsky;
3) Romeo & Juliet.
Steve Reich:
1) Music for 18 Musicians;
2) Octet;
3) Drumming.
Terry Riley:
1) Rainbow in Curved Air;
2) Persian Surgery Dervishes;
3) In ‘C’.
Arnold Schoenberg:
1) Pelleas et Melisande;
2) 5 Pieces for Orchestra Op.16;
3) A Survivor from Warsaw;
4) Pierrot Lunaire Op.21;
5) Chamber Symphony No.1 Op. 9
William Schuman:
Symphonies No. 3, 5, & 9.
Wallingford Riegger:
Dichotomy.
Roy Harris:
Symphony No. 3.
Roger Sessions:
1) Symphony No. 8; 2) The Black Maskers.
Dmitri Shostakovich:
1) Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 11, & 15;
2) The New Babylon.
Karheinz Stockhausen:
1) Hymnen;
2) Song of the Youths;
3) Sonatina.
Igor Stravinsky:
1) The Firebird;
2) The Rite of Spring.
Edgard Varese:
‘The Varese Album’.
Anton Webern:
Variations for Orchestra Op.30.
Charles Dodge:
Earths Magnetic Field.
Morton Feldman:
Rothko Chapel.
Pauline Oliveros:
l of lV.
Iannis Xenakis:
‘Electro - Acoustic Music’.
Morton Subotnick:
Silver Apples of the Moon.
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
1) The Lark Ascending;
2) Fantasia on Greensleeves. |
