American Sketches

SKU: SU.00220528

This CD Sheet Music™ collection surveys the wealth of American concert music from the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes over 150 works for solo piano, piano duo, and piano four-hands by forty familiar and lesser-known American composers. Includes works by: Beach (Four Sketches, Valse Caprice); Bowles (Folk Preludes); Carpenter (Krazy Kat); Chadwick (Caprice); Colderidge-Taylor (Forest Scenes); Cowell (Three Irish Legends); Crawford ; 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 more. Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2200+ pages

Please note, customers using Macintosh computers running macOS Catalina (version 10.5) have reported hardware compatibility issues with this product. If you encounter these issues, we recommend copying the entire contents of the disk to a contained folder on a thumb drive or other storage device for use on your Mac.

SKU: HL.49019125

ISBN 9790001176644. UPC: 841886016828. 9.0x12.0x0.047 inches.

Composed in 1896, while MacDowell was in Boston, Woodland Sketches are among the best known of the American composers piano works. The famous first piece from opus 51, To a Wild a Rose, has been adapted here for E-flat saxophone and piano accompaniment.

SKU: AP.46608

UPC: 038081532332. English.

This piece is an ideal gateway for transitioning from method books to performance music. It is inspired by the shaped-note tradition of the early 19th century, which served as a major influence in the development of truly American music. Perfect for the first contest and every concert!

SKU: PR.11642019S

UPC: 680160682188.

SKU: AP.36-52255538

ISBN 9781621568636. UPC: 746241260185. English.

A rousing concert ender, this work will challenge all sections with a wide range (every part shifts), running passage work, trills, and syncopated rhythms.  The B section, a lyric waltz theme, shows off the principal players with extended solos.  The return of the A section superimposes the waltz melody on the original syncopated theme for a wonderful conclusion.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

SKU: AP.46608S

UPC: 038081532349. English.

This piece is an ideal gateway for transitioning from method books to performance music. It is inspired by the shaped-note tradition of the early 19th century, which served as a major influence in the development of truly American music. Perfect for the first contest and every concert!

SKU: PR.11642019L

UPC: 680160682195.

SKU: AP.36-52250538

ISBN 9781621568629. UPC: 679360699294. English.

A rousing concert ender, this work will challenge all sections with a wide range (every part shifts), running passage work, trills, and syncopated rhythms.  The B section, a lyric waltz theme, shows off the principal players with extended solos.  The return of the A section superimposes the waltz melody on the original syncopated theme for a wonderful conclusion.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.