Corigliano - Piano Concerto

[desanto]

Hello,

I'm doing an undergrad research paper/analysis of John Corigliano's Piano Concerto (particularly 12-tone techniques in the 2nd movement - Scherzo). I've been looking through JSTOR, The Music Index, etc. for any sources related to the Piano Concerto, but it seems that not much if anything has been written.

The analysis portion of my paper is coming along fine, but I'd really like to find other sources that discuss the piece.

The closest thing I've found so far is a program (with an introduction) of John Corigliano at the Royal Northern College of Music (2000). I'm still waiting for the source to come in, so I don't even know if that will be any help.

Would anyone have any references to the Piano Concerto or has anyone here studied it?

Thanks,
Nolan

[ramseytheii]

The problem with writing dissertations on such recent pieces, is that yours is the only literature there is likely to be.  The classics have not only had decades or centuries to accumulate literature about them, but also they were written in recognizable and definable traditions, which gave them an automatic context. 

I think as far as analysis presented in literature is concerned, it is not really interesting - speaking personally - unless given a broader context.  I don't know the literature out there for this piece, but I personally doubt you are going to find much.  That leaves it to you to either define the context, or to give up and try an easier piece to approach.

It seems you've done a good job of searching the academic resources, so if you do as good a job writing your paper, perhaps it will end up indexed in those resources and become available for others to build off.

Good luck,
Walter Ramsey