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Performance Practices in Late Twentieth Century Piano Music.(Video Recording Review)
Performance Practices in Late Twentieth Century Piano Music (DVD), by Stewart Gordon. Alfred Publishing Company, Inc. (16380 Roscoe Blvd., RO. Box 10003, Van Nuys, CA 91410), 2004. 55 mins. $19.95.
Keeping with its tradition of providing authoritative and affordable materials for music students and teachers, Alfred Publishing Company, Inc. now offers an exceptional DVD featuring Stewart Gordon in a discussion of piano music and compositional practices of the late twentieth century. Speaking in his unique and personable style, Gordon exhorts today's musicians to "follow [the composers of the twentieth century] and grow in our own art just as they [the composers] grew in theirs."
The title of the DVD, Performance Practices ..., is a bit misleading, for in this lecture-recital, Gordon presents less of a discussion and demonstration of performance techniques than an introduction to and historical overview of the development of compositional techniques of late twentieth-century piano music. Nevertheless, Gordon offers important historical perspectives and insights into analytical techniques that, while based in the vocabulary of traditional harmony, may be used to understand much of late twentieth-century music. The video is especially valuable for those teachers and older students who, perhaps because of feelings of dissociation, avoid the more cryptic and initially inaccessible late ...
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