Three Movements from” Petrushka” was adapted from Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka in 1921. The piece is renowned for its complex rhythmic style and harmonic style that includes the use of dissonance intervals, unusual rhythmic patterns, and polytonality. Igor Stravinsky’s background and stylistic periods are represented in Chapter One. Chapter Two is mainly about the background of ballet Petrushka and the analysis of piano solo version in terms of structure, theme and creativity. Chapter Three deals with the discussion of dynamics, timbre and gradation of solo piano performance through the Orchestration and instrumentation of orchestral version of ballet. The final chapter, the conclusion.

Program:

D. Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor K.9 & K.141

J. Haydn: Piano Sonata No.62 in E-flat major, Hob.XVI:52

S. Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No.2 Op.36

F. Chopin: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise brillante, Op.22

I. Stravinsky: Three Movements from “Petrushka”