00220528             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 
 

2200+ pages.