Five Movements For Piano (2021) - Mvt. 1 by Evan Whitfield published on 2023-01-27T21:20:59Z This suite of five contrasting movements is my tribute to the following composers from the twentieth century: Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and George Rochberg. This group has deeply influenced my current contemporary classical oeuvre, and their representative melodic, harmonic, and compositional styles continue to be a source of endless invention and recapitulation. Whilst the twenty-first century has blurred many of the distinctive qualities of early twentieth century post-tonal composition, the re-enactment of transposing the modernistic originality of these titans of music is indeed necessary for discovering and developing one's own craft. Thus this exercise in compositional refinement is tantamount to similar acts of human endeavors such as reaching the summit of a great mountain or deciphering the architecture of a lost pyramid. Genre Classical