Piano Literature : Sonatas and Variations

Lecture XIII: American Music, Jazz, and Atonality

 

American Piano Sonatas and Variations 1850-1950

Louis Moreau Gottschalk(1829-189): Souvenir de Porto Rico ( 1859)
Edward MacDowell (1861-1908): 4 Sonatas

 

Charles Ives(1874-1954): Three-Page Sonata(1905)
                                           Sonata No. 1 (1910)
                                           Sonata No. 2 "Concord" (1915)
                                           Varied Air and Variations (1923)
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959): Sonata (1935)
Charles Griffes (1884-1920): Sonata(1918)
Walter Piston (1894-1976): Passacaglia(1943)
Roger Sessions (1896-1985): 3 Sonatas
Roy Harris (1898-1979): Sonata op. l (1928)
Carlos Chavez (1899-1978): 6 Sonatas

 

Aaron Copland (1900-1991): Passacaglia(1922)
                                                Piano Variations (1930)
                                                Piano Sonata (1941)
Paul Creston (1906-1985): Sonata op. 9 (1936)
Elliott Carter (b. 1908): Sonata(1945, revised 1982)

 

Samuel Barber (1910-1981): Sonata in E-flat minor op. 26(1949)
Norman Dello Joio (b. 1913): 3 Sonatas
Vincent PersicReltti (1915-1988): 12 Sonatas
                                                         6 Sonatinas
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983): 3 Sonatas
Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938): "The People United... "(1975)

American Jazz Pianists: Variations on Popular Songs

Scott Joplin (1868-1917): Ragtime
Joseph Lamb (1887-1960): Ragtime
Edward "Zez" Confrey (1895-1971): Novelty' Ragtime

 

George Gershwin (1898-1937): Foxtrot Variations
                                                    Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1943)
Art Tatum (1910-1956): Virtuoso Variations
Nat "King" Cole(1917-1965)
Erroll Garner (1921-1977)

Atonal, Expressionist and Serial Piano Sonatas and Variation Sets

Arnold Schonberg (1874-1951): Suite op. 25 (1924)

 

Anton Webern (1883-1945): Variations op. 27 (1936)

 

Alban Berg (1885-1935): Sonata op. 1 (1908)
Ernst Toch (1887-1964): Sonata op. 47 (1928)
                                         Sonatinetta op. 78b (1958)

 

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): 3 Sonatas (1936)
                                                Variations (1936)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1992): 4 Sonatas
                                             Toccata and Chaconne op. 13 ( 1922)
                                              Twelve Variations op. 79 (1937)
                                             "George Washington" Variations op. 120(1950)
Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949): Fifteen Little Variations(1927)
                                                   Passacaglia (1940)

Listening List XIII

Neo-Romanticism in Hollywood; Survey of Piano Ensemble and Concerto-Variation Works