For Piano and Orchestra with 2nd piano part and optional percussion.

About the Series: Too often, both students and teachers get discouraged with contemporary compositions because of their avant-garde sound. This series addresses that concern by providing extellent music which is both contemporary and intuitively musical. Contemporary performance practices such as depressing keys silently, cluster chords, pedal effects, knocking on the keyboard, contemporary harmonies, jazz idioms, bitonality, modes, mixed and changing meters, and 12-tone techniques, challenge the student to listen for new rhythmic gestures and tonal colors, and expand their interpretative capacity. While the composers invited to write for this series use a colorful palette of contemporary techniques and textures, they were selected for their strong musical voices, which ensure that the ultimate goal of musical communication is never lost.

This collection gives students a taste of the avante-garde musical language of our time. Of the 25 pieces, most are two pages while some are 8-10 measures long. Spotlighting a variety of musical elements encourages students to explore their imagination. Modern techniques such as Â"silently press L.H. notes and keep them down the entire pieceÂ" from Whispering Harmonics, or Â"tap the rim of the fallboardÂ" in Pecking and Tapping, Â"choose your own tempoÂ" are some of the adventurous suggestions featured in this 32 page book.

An FJH Contemporary Keyboard Edition.

An FJH Contemporary Keyboard Edition.

Late Intermediate/Early Advanced.