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Recent Researches in American Music

Anthology of Early American Keyboard Music 1787-1830
Edited by J. Bunker Clark
A 1 ISBN 0-89579-098-X (1977) xx+131 pp. $52.00
  ISBN 978-0-89579-098-9
(13-digit)
A 2 ISBN 0-89579-099-8 (1977) 124 pp. $47.00
  ISBN 978-0-89579-099-6
(13-digit)
These 36 keyboard compositions are by 24 composers including William Brown, Benjamin Carr, James Hewitt, Rayner Taylor, Charles Gilbert, Arthur Clifton, Anthony Philip Heinrich, Oliver Shaw, and others. Newly edited from the original editions or manuscripts, this anthology offers an overview of the remarkably large production in early America of sonatas, rondos, medleys, variation sets, marches and dances, and programmatic pieces.

Music Sample (A1)

Music Sample (A2)

Contents
Part I (A 1)

 William Brown
Rondo III (1787)

 Benjamin Carr
Sonata VI (1796); The Maid of Lodi with Variations (1809); The Siege of Tripoli (1804-1805); Voluntary for the Organ (ca. 1801)

 Charles Gilfert
Ah! What is the Bosom's Commotion with Variations (ca. 1813)

 James Hewitt
Sonatina III (1799?); The New Federal Overture (1797); Thema with 30 Variations (1803-1806); Trip to Nahant, a favorite Rondo (ca. 1811); Yankee Doodle with Variations (1807-10)

 T. L. Holden
The Copenhagen Waltz with Variations (1811-17)

 John Christopher Moller
Medley with the most favorite Airs and Variations (1795-97); Rondo (ca. 1800)

 Eliza Crawly Murden
March (1815?)

 Mr. Newman
Sonata III (1807-10)

 Stephen Sicard
The President of the United States' March (1789)

 Raynor Taylor
Divertimento II (1797)

 Part II (A 2)

 Arthur Clifton
An Original Air with Variations (1820)

 Frederick A. Getze
Saxon Rondo (1821?)

 James F. Hance
2d Grand Fantasie Introduction and Brilliant Variations to the Russian Dance (1823-26)

 Anthony Philip Heinrich
The Debarkation March (1825-26); Toccatina Capriciosa (1823)

 Charles F. Hupfeld
A Favorite Waltz [Hungarian Air] with Variations for the piano forte (1817)

 Francis Johnson
Honour to the Brave (1824); Johnson's New Cotillions (1824)

 Christopher Meineke
Divertimento (ca. 1825); Variations to the favourite air Au clair de la lune (1827)

 Julius Metz
Petit Pot Pourri (1821-23)

 Peter K. Moran
A Fantasia (1818-21); Moran's Favorite Variations to the Suabian Air (1817-19)

 Oliver Shaw
Welcome the Nation's Guest, a Military Divertimento (1824)

 William Taylor
Clinton's Triumph (1824?)

 Charles Thibault
L'Adieu, a Rondo (1824); La Bretonne (1824)

 Charles Zeuner
Grand Centennial March (1830)