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Sitsky
Over the past 40 years, composer and pianist Larry Sitsky has played a significant role in Australian musical culture. In honour of his 70th birthday, the National Library presents this celebratory publication. In conversation with fellow composer Jim Cotter, Professor Sitsky discusses his early experiences as a migrant from China to Australia, studying under Eugene Goossens at the Sydney Conservatorium in the 1950s, the development of contemporary music in Australia and his life as a composer.
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Larry Sitsky's Rhythms, Chords and Elbows
This is the second volume of delightful piano pieces by composer Larry Sitsky. The volume introduced a wide variety of styles with each work focusing on a particular aspect of musicianship necessary for the modern pianist. The editor has grouped the works around basic fundamentals such as rhythmic studies, colourful pianistic effects, alternative notations, exciting new harmonies and stylistic character pieces. With copious performance notes and editorial suggestions, this book provides the teacher, student and lover of the piano with a comprehensive introduction to contemporary piano playing styles and techniques.
The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020
The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 1970s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and indeterminism that seemed harbingers of the symphony’s demise. From the late 1970s onwards, many Australian composers chose to work in styles that admitted modal and tonal melodic and harmonic elements with regular pulse. Major cycles of symphonies by Carl Vine, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards began to appear in the late 1980s. Other prolific symphonists like Paul Paviour (10 symphonies), David Morgan (15 symphonies), Philip Bracanin (11), Pet...
Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound
Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound presents Busoni as an innovator inspired not only by past musical traditions but also by a contemporary interest in experimentalism and architecture. Author Erinn E. Knyt explores how Busoni's compositional innovation made a lasting impact in musical language and spatialized architectural music.
The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960
The symphony retained its primacy as the most prestigious large-scale orchestral form throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in Britain, Russia and the United States. Likewise, Australian composers produced a steady stream of symphonies throughout the period from Federation (1901) through to the end of the 1950s. Stylistically, these works ranged from essays in late nineteenth-century romanticism, twentieth-century nationalism, neo-classicism and near-atonality. Australian symphonies were most prolific during the 1950s, with 36 local entries in the 1951 Commonwealth Jubilee Symphony competition. This extensive repertoire was overshadowed by the emergence of a new ge...
Larry Sitsky
Exploring the personal and cultural experiences that have shaped the creative output of one of Australia's foremost composers, this fascinating study begins in a Russian enclave in northern China, progresses through student days in Sydney and San Francisco, and culminates with Sitsky's present position as Professor of Composition at The Australian National University in Canberra. The many influences on his work, including important professional and personal relationships with such eminent persons as the poet Gwen Harwood and the violinist Jan Sedivka, are discussed in detail as are the sources of much of the inspiration for Sitsky's compositions, now numbering close to 200. Of interest to sc...
Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy
An analysis of the composer's unconventional teaching style and philosophy, his relationship with his students, and his effect on twentieth century music. Many students of renowned composer, conductor, and teacher Ferruccio Busoni had illustrious careers of their own, yet the extent to which their mentor's influence helped shape their success was largely unexplored until now. Through rich archival research including correspondence, essays, and scores, Erinn E. Knyt presents an evocative account of Busoni's idiosyncratic pedagogy—focused on aesthetic ideals rather than methodologies or techniques—and how this teaching style and philosophy can be seen and heard in the Nordic-inspired music...
Larry Sitsky
Sitsky speaks of his musical studies at the Sydney Conservatorium ; studying under Egon Petrie in the U.S. ; his first professional position in Australia ; teaching at the Queensland Conservatorium ; joining the staff at the Canberra School of Music (1965) ; his work in musicology ; writing a book on Busoni ; his method of composition ; his opera "The fall of the House of Usher" ; and his thoughts on Australian music.
