American Concert Piano Music: The Ultimate Collection
This collection surveys the wealth of American concert music from the 19th and 20th centuries with over 150 works for solo piano, piano duo, and piano four-hands by forty American composers both familiar and lesser-known.
Includes: Beach (Four Sketches, Valse Caprice); Bowles (Folk Preludes); Carpenter (Krazy Kat); Chadwick (Caprice); Coleridge-Taylor (Forest Scenes); Cowell (Three Irish Legends); Crawford (Seeger), Farwell; Foote (Five Poems after Omar Kayyam); Foster (Quadrilles, Soirée Polka); Gottschalk (Bamboula, Souvenir de Porto Rico); Grainger (Country Garden, Shepherd's Hey); Griffes (Roman Sketches); Herbert; Ives (Some South-Paw Pitching); MacDowell (Woodland Sketches, New England Idyls); Ornstein; Paine; Persichetti (Poems Vols. 1-3); Piston (Passacaglia); Riegger (Petit Etude); Ruggles (Evocations); Sousa (Hail to the Spirit of Liberty, The Stars and Stripes Forever); and much more
Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Table of Contents:
BARTLETT, HOMER
BEACH, AMY (MRS. H. H. A.)
Children’s Album, Op. 36
Gavotte
Waltz
March
Polka
Four Sketches, Op 15
Phantoms
Dreaming
Fire-flies
Summer Dreams, Op. 47
Robin Redbreast
Twilight
Katy-dids
Elfin Tarantelle
Good Night
Menuet Italien
Danse des Fleurs
Dancing Leaves
Gavotte Fantastique
Variations on Balkan Themes, Op. 60
BOWLES, PAUL
II. Ching a Ring Chaw
III. Whar Did You Cum From
IV. Oh! Potatoes They Grow Small Over There
V. Cape Ann
VI. Ole Tare River
VII. Kentucky Moonshiner
BRISTOW, GEORGE FREDERICK
BUCK, DUDLEY
CARPENTER, JOHN ALDEN
Krazy Kat( A Jazz Pantomime)
Little Dancer
Little Indian
Polonaise Américaine
Tango Américaine
CARR, BENJAMIN
CHADWICK, GEORGE W.
Five Pieces
Dans le Canot (Barcarolle)
Le Ruisseau (Étude)
Le Crépuscule (Romance)
Les Grenouilles (Humoresque)
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, SAMUEL
II. The Phantom Lover Arrives
III. The Phantom Tells His Tale of Longing
IV. Erstwhile They Ride, The Forest Maiden Acknowledges Her Love
V. Now Proudly They Journey Towards the Great City
Three Humoresques, Op. 31
II.
III.
The Stones Are Very Hard
Take Nabandji
They Will Not Lend Me A Child
Song Of Conquest
Warriors’ Song
Oloba
The Bamboula
The Angels Changed My Name
Deep River
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?
Don’t Be Weary, Traveler
Going Up
I’m Troubled In Mind
I Was Way Down A-Yonder
Let Us Cheer The Weary Traveler
Many Thousand Gone
My Lord Delivered Daniel
Oh, He Raise A Poor Lazarus
Pilgrim’s Sing
Run, Mary, Run
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Steal Away
Wade In The Water
COWELL, HENRY
Four Encores to Dynamic Motion
2. Amiable Conversation
3. Advertisement
4. Antinomy
The Hero Sun
The Voice of Lir
CRAWFORD (SEEGER), RUTH
Piano Study in Mixed Accents
FARWELL, ARTHUR
Nearing The Village
Song Of Approach
Laying Down The Pipes
Raising The Pipes
Invocation
Song Of Peace
Choral
FOOTE, ARTHUR
Five Poems After Omar Khayyam, Op. 41
From Rest Harrow
Morning Glories
Rain on the Garret Roof
A Country Song
Alla Turca
Serenade, Op. 45
II. Air
III. A Dance
IV. Finale
V. Toccatina
II. Dusk
III. Valse Triste
IV. Flying Cloud
V. Oriental Dance
II. Fugue
III. Romance
IV. Capriccio
II. Romance
III. Toccata
FOSTER, STEPHEN
Old Folks At Home (Theme and Variations)
Quadrilles
2. Oh! Boys, Carry Me Long
3. Nelly Bly
4. Farewell, My Lilly Dear
5. Cane Break Jig
Soirée Polka
The Village Bells
Tioga Waltz
GOTTSCHALK, LOUIS MOREAU
Bamboula, Op. 2( Danse des Nègres)
Berceuse, Op. 47 (Cradle Song)
Danza, Op. 33
Grand Scherzo, Op. 57
Home, Sweet Home, Op. 51 (Caprice, after Bishop)
La Columbe, Op. 49 (Petite Polka)
La Gallina, Op. 53 (Danse Cubaine )
La Jota Aragonesa, Op. 14 (Caprice Espagnol)
La Savane, Op. 3 (Ballade Creole)
La Scintilla, Op. 20 (Mazurka Sentimentale)
Le Bananier, Op. 5 (Chanson Nègre)
Le Mancenillier, Op. 11 (Sérénade)
Manchega, Op. 38 (Etude de Concert)
Marche de Nuit, Op. 17
Minuit À Séville, Op. 30 (Caprice)
Morte!!, Op. 60 (Lamentation)
O Ma Charmante, Épargnez Moi!, Op. 44 (Caprice)
Ojos Criollos, Op. 37 (Danse Cubaine-Caprice Brillant)
Pasquinade, Op. 59 (Caprice)
Printemps D’Amour, Op. 40 (Mazurka, Caprice de Concert)
Ricordati, Op. 26 (Nocturne-Méditation-Romance)
Ses Yeux, Op. 66 (Polka de Concert)
Sospiro, Op. 24 (Valse Poétique)
Souvenir de la Havane, Op. 39(Grande Caprice de Concert)
Souvenir de Porto Rico, Op. 31( Marche des Gibaros)
Souvenirs D’Andalousie, Op. 22 (Caprice de Concert)
Suis Moi!, Op. 45 (Caprice)
The Banjo, Op. 15 (American Sketch)
The Dying Poet (Méditation)
The Last Hope, Op. 16 (Religious Meditation)
Tournament Galop
Union, Op. 48 (Concert Paraphrase on National Airs)
GRAINGER, PERCY ALDRIDGE
Colonial Song
Country Gardens
Eastern Intermezzo
In A Nutshell
2. Gay But Wistful
3. Pastoral
4. The Gum-Suckers March
Lullaby (from: Tribute to Foster)
Mock Morris (Concert Version)
Mock Morris (Popular Version)
Molly on the Shore
One More Day, My John
Shepherd’s Hey
Spoon River
The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol
Walking Tune
GRIFFES, CHARLES TOMLINSON
Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6
Notturno
Scherzo
Marching Song
Roman Sketches, Op. 7
Nightfall (Al far della notte)
The Fountain Of The Acqua Paola
Clouds
Three Tone-Pictures, Op. 5
The Vale Of Dreams
The Night Winds
HEINRICH, ANTHONY PHILIP
HERBERT, VICTOR
The Mountain Brook
HEWITT, JAMES
HILL, EDWARD BURLINGAME
A Starlit Night
An Autumn Hunting Song
An August Lullaby
In a Garden by Moonlight
A Summer Evening
HOFFMAN, RICHARD
IVES, CHARLES
Study No. 5
The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830’s and 1840’s (Study No. 9)
KELLEY, EDGAR STILLMAN
The Headless Horseman, Op. 2, No. 3
LOOMIS, HARVEY W.
A Song of Sorrow
Around the Wigwam
The Silent Conquerer
The Warriors’ Dance
MACDOWELL, EDWARD
Fireside Tales, Op. 61
2. Of Br’er Rabbit
3. From A German Forest
4. Of Salamanders
5. A Haunted House
6. By Smouldering Embers
2. Of A Tailor And A Bear
3. Beauty In The Rosegarden
4. From Dwarfland
2. The Brook
3. Moonshine
4. Winter
2. Soubrette
3. Lover
4. Witch
5. Clown
6. Villain
7. Sweetheart
8. Epilogue
II. Mid-summer
III. Mid-winter
IV. With Sweet Lavender
V. In Deep Woods
VI. Indian Idyl
VII. To An Old White Pine
VIII. From Puritan Days
IX. From A Log Cabin
X. The Joy Of Autumn
II. Presto giocoso
III. Largo
Sea Pieces, Op. 55
2. From A Wandering Iceberg
3. A. D. MDCXX
4. Starlight
5. Song
6. From The Depths
7. Nautilus
8. In Mid-Ocean
Six Poems After Heinrich Heine, Op. 31
2. Scotch Poem
3. From Long Ago
4. The Post Wagon
5. The Shepherd Boy
6. Monologue
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III.
IV.
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III.
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III.
2. Alla Tarentella
3. Romanze
4. Arabeske
5. Waldfahrt (Forest Journey)
6. Gnomentanz (Gnomes’ Dance)
7. Idylle
8. Schattentanz (Shadow Dance)
9. Intermezzo
10. Melodie
11. Scherzino
12. Ungarisch (Hungarian)
2. Moto Perpetuo
3. Wilde Jagd
4. Improvisation
5. Elfentanz
6. Valse Triste
7. Burleske
8. Bluette
9. Träumerie
10. Märzwinde
11. Impromptu
12. Polonaise
Woodland Sketches, Op. 51
II. Will O’ The Wisp
III. At An Old Trysting Place
IV. In Autumn
V. From An Indian Lodge
VI. To A Water-Lily
VII. From Uncle Remus
VIII. A Deserted Farm
IX. By A Meadow Brook
X. Told At Sunset
MASON, WILLIAM
Silver Spring, Op. 6
MASON, DANIEL GREGORY
NEVIN, ETHELBERT
ORNSTEIN, LEO
Danse Burlesque, Op. 7, No. 9
Danse Fantastique, Op. 7, No. 6
Gavotte, Op. 7, No. 7
Humoresque, Op. 7, No. 4
Mazurka, Op. 7, No. 2
Mélancholie, Op. 7, No. 5
Romance, Op. 7, No. 3
Valse, Op. 7, No. 8
PAINE, JOHN KNOWLES
Fuga Giocosa, Op. 41, No. 3
PARKER, HORATIO
La Sauterelle, Op. 49, No. 2
PERSICHETTI, VINCENT
Little Piano Book, Op. 60
2 Capriccio
3. Dialogue
4. Masque
5. Statement
6. Arietta
7. Humoreske
8. Fanfare
9. Interlude
10. Prologue
11.Canon
12. Epilogue
13. Fugue
14. Gloria
2. Soft is the collied night (James Elroy Flecker)
3. Gather for festival bright weed and purple shell (H. D.)
4. Wake subtler dreams, and touch me nigh to tears (William Watson)
5. Ravished lute, sing to her virgin ears (Robert Fitzgerald)
6. Whose thin fraud I wink at privily (William Watson)
8. To whose more clear than crystal voice the frost had joined a crystal spell (Léonie Adams)
9. Sleep, weary mind; dream, heart’s desire (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
10. Dust in sunlight, and memory in corners (T. S. Eliot)
11. Make me drunken with deep red torrents of joy (John Gould Fletcher)
13. Listen! Can you hear the antic melody of fear those two anxious feet are playing? (Walter Prude)
14. Puffed out and marching upon a blue sky (Amy Lowell)
15. And hung like those top jewels of night (Léonie Adams)
16. Each gay dunce shall lend a hand (John Trumbull)
Sources of Poems
PISTON, WALTER
RIEGGER, WALLINGFORD
RUGGLES, CARL
Evocations(Four Chants for Piano)
II. Andante con Fantasia
III. Moderato Appassionato
IV. Adagio Sostenuto
SHEPHERD, ARTHUR
SOUSA, JOHN PHILIP
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Hands Across The Sea
Imperial Edward
Jack Tar
King Cotton
Semper Fidelis
The Beau Ideal March
The Bride-Elect
The Diplomat
The Free Lance
The Gladiator
The High School Cadets
The Invincible Eagle
The Liberty Bell
The Manhattan Beach March
The March Past of the Corcoran Cadets
The March Past of the National Fencibles
The March Past of the Rifle Regiment
The Picador March
The Stars and Stripes Forever (arranged for Piano, 6 hands)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (March)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Song)
The Thunderer
The Washington Post
TROYER, CARLOS
WARREN, GEORGE WILLIAM
WHITING, ARTHUR
Humoreske