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Contemporary (around 1900 - Today)
This is the period where European and Western composers start to free themselves from the constraints of centuries of Counterpoint and Harmony. New, radical theories of music abound, and experimentation is the name of the game. Dissonance becomes popular, and complicated and difficult rhythms are introduced. Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, much of the music of this period is not represented on the Play at Home page. A few contemporary composers have given me permission to
use their pieces.
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Ralf Behrens
Claude Debussy
Children's Corner, Movement 6
SATBG
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This is an actual recording of the composer playing his own composition, a little fuzzy but historically important.
Victor Eijkhout
Double, Double, Toil and Treble
No Youtube video available for this piece, but there are recordings available on the IMSLP site.
MP3 Playback: Slow BBBB
MP3 Playback: Normal AAAA
MP3 Playback: Normal BBBB
AAAA
or BBBB/CCCC
Both the normal AAAA and normal BBBB MP3 files were taken from the IMSLP site.
Las Vacas
AATTTBBG
No Youtube video available for this piece, but there are recordings available on the IMSLP site.
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Timberlake
SATB
No Youtube video available for this piece, but there are recordings available on the IMSLP site.
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S score and recording differ slightly in measures 80, 88, and 96.
Recorders + 6 guitars
Joseph Hartmann
Rondino
SAATB
No Youtube video available for this piece.
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Scott Joplin
Elite Syncopations
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ATTBGC
This video is made from an old paper roll for a player piano, a very common instrument from Jopin's time period. The slightly out-of-tune piano sound is often called "honky-tonk piano."
Joel Peisinger
Ostinato: For Five in Fivish
SATBG
No Youtube video available for this piece.
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Prospect
SATB
MP3 Playback: Slow (Excerpt)
Echo and Jazz variations at slow speed.
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Rondo
ATBG (S)
No Youtube video available for this piece.
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Transcribed for Soprano
Three Anthems
ATBG (S) / ATGC (S)
No Youtube video available for this piece.
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Anthems 1 and III are ATBG. Anthem II is ATGC.
Transcribed for Soprano
Maurice Ravel
Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin
AATTBBGGC
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Transcribed for Soprano