Music for Young People

Music for Young People is a piano solo suite of nine movements for the advancing intermediate pianist. This collection features heavily chromatic and moderately dissonant twentieth-century tonality miniature character sets. Each movement ranges from one to three minutes in length and is stylistically and dynamically diverse. The varying degree of aggressive and lyrical nature of these pieces range in their complexity of finger dexterity, harmonical activity, contrapuntal density, and metrical changes, but the prevailing atmosphere is satisfying, compelling, and rich with musical ideas. It is balanced with substantial musical progressions that underpin the structure and make this collection a worthwhile endeavor for the young musician seeking a more diverse introduction to more advanced forms of contemporary classical music.

NINE MOVEMENTS: 1.) Deliberately; 2.) Dreamily; 3.) Agitato; 4.) Andante con passionata; 5.) Marche; 6.) Allegro con dolore; 7.) Pomposo; 8.) Molto allegro; 9.) Prestissimo fantastico