Recent Researches in American Music

One of Victorian America's most beloved and respected composers, Dudley Buck played a crucial role in the coming of age of American music following the Civil War. This volume of his most popular organ works is the first scholarly edition of these pieces. A conductor, organist, and teacher, Buck was the first American to write professional, accessible, and popular organ music, as well as a wealth of choral music, including anthems, cantatas, and partsongs. (See also MU 14 for a selection of these works.) N. Lee Orr's careful, authoritative edition presents Buck's two organ sonatas and four concert variations, introduced by an informative essay on Buck's life and the development of American organs and organ music.

Of related interest: N. Lee Orr, Dudley Buck (University of Illinois Press, 2008). American Composers series. A concise introduction to the life and work of one of America’s major composers of organ and church music. For more information, please contact the publisher: www.press.uillinois.edu.

Contents:

Grand Sonata in E-flat, Op. 22
I.. Allegro con brio
II. Andante espressivo
III. Scherzo. Vivace non troppo
IV. Finale. Allegro maestoso

Sonata No. 2, Op. 77
I. Allegro moderato ma energico
II. Adagio molto espressivo
III. Allegro vivace non troppo

Variations on a Scotch Air, Op. 51

Variations on "The Last Rose of Summer," Op. 59

Variations on "Old Folks at Home"