White Peacock and Other Works for Piano Solo, Charles T. Griffes

The White Peacock and Other Works for Solo Piano

Description
The central Piano works of Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) share with Claude Debussys music those distinctive harmonies and rhythms that typify impressionism in the early 20th century. In that period of 1910 toabout 1916 the era of Debussys Sunken Cathedral and Ondine Griffes composed his evocative The Lake at Evening, The White Peacock and The Fountain of Acqua Paola. This highlycoloured music, free in form and strongly pictorial, signalled Griffes creative break from his student work in Berlin, infusing his music with experimental parallel harmonies, whole-note scales, fluid rhythms,poeticreferences, and tinges of orientalism typical of the style and its time.

This fine collection contains all of the essential works of Griffes central period: Three Tone-Pictures, Op.5 (The Lake atEvening, The Vale of Dreams, and The Night Winds); Fantasy Pieces, Op.6 (Barcarolle, Notturno, and Scherzo); and Roman Sketches, Op. 7 (The White Peacock,Nightfall, The Fountain of the Acqua Paola, and Clouds). The volume concludes with Griffes Piano Sonata, completed in early 1918, just two years before his premature death.Written at the peak of Griffes creative power, it is one of the composers most striking works and a complete break from his earlier style classically structured, and uncompromisingly dissonant.

Specifications
Composer Charles W. Griffes
MR-Product Format Instrumental Album
Instrument Group Piano or Keyboard
Instrumentation Piano
Product Type Book
Series Dover Music for Piano
Grade of Difficulty Intermediate
Publisher Dover Publications
Style/Period Description Post 1901
No. Pages 128
ISBN 9780486404066
UPC 800759404063
Edition Number 0486404064
No. DOV404064

Songlist
1. Clouds
2. Fantasy Pieces Op.6: Barcarolle
3. Nightfall
4. Notturno
5. Roman Sketches Op.7: The White Peacock
6. Scherzo (Goldschmidt, Berthold)
7. Sonata ,
8. The Fountain Of The Acqua Paola
9. The Lake At Evening
10. The Night Winds
11. The Vale Of Dreams
12. Three Tone Pictures Op.5