Description: This new anthology features a diverse array of American piano music by artists ranging from Stephen Foster and Scott Joplin to George Gershwin and Aaron Copland. Contents include Amy Beach's Scottish Legend, John Alden Carpenter's Polonaise Americaine. Kitten on the Keys by Zez Confrey, Copland's The Cat and the Mouse and Passacaglia, Henry Cowell's The Tides of Manaunaun. Rialto Ripples by Gershwin, Gottschalk's The Banjo, Griffes's The Lake at Evening, Indian Summer by Victor Herbert, Joplin's Bethena, Joseph Lamb's Ragtime Nightingale, and MacDowell's To a Water-Lily Also included are works by "Blind Tom" Bethune, Harry T. Burleigh, James Reese Europe, Arthur Farwell, Howard Hanson, and many other American composers. Attractive and inexpensive, this volume features an informative Introduction by editor Joseph Smith, who has recorded a number of American piano works.

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