20th/21st Century Sample Listening List
Listening List
Impressionism
Debussy
Preludes Etudes Images I Images II
Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit
Sonatine
Jeux d’eau
Piano Concerto in G Major Piano Concerto for LH Alone
Griffes
Roman Sketches, Op. 7 Sonata
Dada
Eric Satie
Gymnopédie Gnossiennes
Nationalism
Isaac Albeniz
Iberia, All 4 Books Navarra
Leos Janacek
Sonata, I.X.1905
Bela Bartok
6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm Suite
Out of Doors
Piano Concerto No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 2 Piano Concerto No. 3
Alberto Ginastera
Sonata No. 1
Igor Stravinsky
Trois Mouvements de Petrushka
Neo-Classicism / Neo-Romanticism
Sergei Prokofiev
Sonata No. 6
Sonata No. 7
Sonata No. 8 Suggestion Diabolique 5 Piano Concertos
Dmitri Shostakovich
Preludes and Fugues Piano Concerto No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 2
Samuel Barber
Excursions Sonata
Piano Concerto
Expressionism (2nd Viennese School)
Arnold Schoenberg
3 Pieces, Op. 11
6 Little Pieces, Op. 19 Suite, Op. 25
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 12
Alban Berg
Sonata, Op. 1
Anton Webern
Variations for Piano, Op. 27
Futurism
Charles Ives
Concord Sonata
Leo Ornstein
Suicide in an Airplane
George Antheil
“Airplane” Sonata
Henry Cowell
The Banshee Aeolian Harp Tides of Mananaan
American Nationalism
Aaron Copland
Piano Variations Sonata
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
American Modernism
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Piano Preludes
John Cage
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano In a Landscape
4’33”
George Crumb
Makrokosmos I Makrokosmos II
Mario Davidovsky
Synchronisms No. 6
European Modernism / Post-Modernism
Olivier Messiaen
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus
X. Regard de l’Esprit de Joie
XI. Premiére communion de la Vierge
Quatre études de rhythm - “Île de feu” Oiseaux exotiques
Quatour pour le fin de temps
Pierre Boulez
12 Notations
Piano Sonata No. 1
Luciano Berio
Sequenza IV
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Klavierstücke IX
Gruppen
Györgi Ligeti
Etudes
Helmut Lachenamann
Guero
Beat Fürrer
Phasma
Minimalism
John Adams
Phrygian Gates
Philip Glass
Metamorphosis
Einstein on the Beach
Steve Reich
Piano Phase
Music for 18 Musicians
Terry Riley
In C
Louis Andriessen
Workers Union
American Post-Modernism
Elliott Carter
Sonata
Night Fantasies
Two Thoughts About the Piano
John Corigliano
Etudes Fantasy
Fantasia on an Ostinato
Lowell Liebermann
Gargoyles
Frederic Rzewski
The People United Will Never Be Defeated De Profundis
William Bolcom
12 New Etudes
David Rakowski
Etudes
Caroline Shaw
Partita for 8 Voices