Non-classical...

[alessandro]

Dear forumeers,
Hello ! Hope everyone is doing fine.  Sorry for interfering but if you have some time I would like a few examples of "modern" pieces.  Somewhere between Messiaen and Cage or something not very known.   But not Sorabji-modern or Ligetti-modern; I  still would like to hear some "easy" harmonics and Sorabji and Ligetti is, from what I heared till now, technically too demanding.   As difficulty-rating I can only say that I'm endlessly finetuning some of the "Goldbergvariations", some excerpts of "Bach partita's" or the easy Chopin preludes and nocturnes.
(of course it is a little contradictory to post it in sheet-request since modern probably means in a certain way 'contemporary' and that doesn't rhyme well with copyright.)
Thanks a lot in advance, hope the fire stops in Australia and wish everybody a very nice day.

[quantum]

Probably better to post this in Repertoire, then when you know the pieces you want request in the sheets section.


Have you tried some Turina?

[mozenrath]

Hey,

first: its Ligeti instead of Ligetti, Hungarian name, nevermind, and secondly - I know its old news, but movie scores are pretty much a kind of evolution of classical music. So I can recommend some, like Philip Glass, the Pride&Prejudice from Dario Marinelli, Clint Mansell's Together we will live forever, Bear McCreary's Battlestar Sonatica, Dustin O'Halloran - these are actually all written originally to piano, which is an advantage to the other orchestra-version-simplified scores.

And Im not sure about some new stuff I didnt checked out yet, but still contemporary musicans and sheet music is available from William Joseph, David Lanz and Gonzales.

I hope this was helpful.
Cheers.

[chopinatic]

Have you heard any Phillip Glass? Glass works is good. Lucvico Eniaudi or somthing like that, hes got some nice modern pieces. Take a look at them

[retrouvailles]

Why is the title of this thread "non-classical"? I think you don't understand that music that was written in the last 50 years by people like Messiaen, Cage, Ligeti, and Sorabji is still technically classical music (sometimes for the sake of argument). I would personally stay away from Glass and Einaudi. That stuff will bore your audience to tears. Also, I would stay away from any pop transcriptions. Try out the music of people like William Bolcom, for starters. He has some ragtimes which hearken back to the times of Joplin et al., but also look ahead. Also, maybe someone like Lowell Liebermann, who is one of the few composers today who cam compose in a neo-romantic style successfully without sounding 2nd rate or like a cheap knockoff of Rachmaninoff or Brahms.

[fhertzbe]

I would personally stay away from Glass and Einaudi. That stuff will bore your audience to tears. Also, I would stay away from any pop transcriptions. Try out the music of people like William Bolcom, for starters.

I don't like Glass or Einaudi either. But Bolcom doesn't seem to even roughly suggest something between Messiaen and Cage. Neither perhaps do Francois Poulenc (e.g., the Mouvements Perpetuelles, see

) or Arvo Pärt ("Für Alina", see

). But check them out in case you like the music.