NTT: solo piano. We start out with a contrary-motion chromatic passage that leads to an almost ragtime/stride-sounding texture, but not so much so that I'm willing to put myself out there and say it's a jazzy American type. But it could be? The motion from I to IV also suggests a certain bluesiness/jazz influence.
The clue is interesting, because it implies this is an early work (and I'd say by extension it implies this is the early work of a well-known composer.)
So does one assume that the composer's work continued in this vein? That it was a primarily pianistic output and that maybe the composer's style developed more along vernacular lines?
Part of me wants to say Stravinsky, but that's partly because I know Joey as well as I do. I could definitely see this being Russian though. Maybe Prokofiev? I feel like he was already a bit juicier by the time he would have been writing an op. 7. Shostakovich seems like a definite possibility; it doesn't really sound like him, but he was into popular music, and every once in a while he could pop out a sui generis movement in an oeuvre otherwise characterized by a very consistent voice.
I feel like I've got to get at least one American in there. I don't think there's any way this could be Joplin, but is there someone who's Joplin adjacent? Obviously I'm focusing on a time period that would be something like 1880-1920.
I'm going with Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Eubie Blake
NTT: solo piano. We start out with a contrary-motion chromatic passage that leads to an almost ragtime/stride-sounding texture, but not so much so that I'm willing to put myself out there and say it's a jazzy American type. But it could be? The motion from I to IV also suggests a certain bluesiness/jazz influence.
The clue is interesting, because it implies this is an early work (and I'd say by extension it implies this is the early work of a well-known composer.)
So does one assume that the composer's work continued in this vein? That it was a primarily pianistic output and that maybe the composer's style developed more along vernacular lines?
Part of me wants to say Stravinsky, but that's partly because I know Joey as well as I do. I could definitely see this being Russian though. Maybe Prokofiev? I feel like he was already a bit juicier by the time he would have been writing an op. 7. Shostakovich seems like a definite possibility; it doesn't really sound like him, but he was into popular music, and every once in a while he could pop out a sui generis movement in an oeuvre otherwise characterized by a very consistent voice.
I feel like I've got to get at least one American in there. I don't think there's any way this could be Joplin, but is there someone who's Joplin adjacent? Obviously I'm focusing on a time period that would be something like 1880-1920.
I'm going with Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Eubie Blake