I permit myself to address you in the hope that you may perhaps feel inclined to have a little work of mine listed on a convenient occasion at a theatre. The Opus would take _at most_ 15-20 minutes in performance. Tune and scores are throughout clearly and correctly copied. You would infinitely oblige me if you would have the great kindness to grant my request. In the hope of receiving your early and favourable answer, I am, With great respect, Yours gratefully, E.A. MACDOWELL. THE MUSIC ANALYTICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON MACDOWELL'S COMPOSITIONS IN ORDER OF OPUS NUMBER. WORKS UNNUMBERED FOLLOW ON _NOTE_.--_In the British Empire, the more important of MacDowell's pianoforte pieces and songs published in America by Arthur P. Schmidt are obtainable from Elkin & Co., Ltd_., 8 & 10, _Beak Street, London, W.I., who issue a list of the composer's works they sell. Other MacDowell compositions are mostly obtainable through J. & W. Chester, Ltd_., II _Great Marlborough Street, London, W.I. Ops_. 24, 28 & 31 _are issued by Winthrop Rogers, Ltd_., 18, _Berners Street, London, W.I. In America, Arthur P. Schmidt for all MacDowell works_. OPUS 1 TO OPUS 8. Destroyed by the Composer. OPUS 9. TWO OLD SONGS, FOR VOICE AND PIANOFORTE. _First Published_, 1894. (Arthur P. Schmidt). 1. _Deserted_. 2. _Slumber Song_. The _Two Old Songs, Op. 9_, head the list of MacDowell's published works with opus numbers. Their position in it, however, is somewhat misleading to the casual observer of the composer's artistic development, for they are the fruits of a mature period and were given the opus number they bear only as a matter of convenience. They were composed about ten or eleven years after the songs of Ops. 11 and 12, which in comparison with the _Two Old, Songs_ are weak and devoid of individuality and originality. The _Two Old Songs_ are very beautiful and expressive, exhibiting the composer's melodic gift. _Deserted_ is a setting of Robert Burns's lines, "Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon." It is one of the most expressive of MacDowell's songs, being full of deep and very human pathos. The melody is one of the most poignant he set down, but it is subjected to repetition that becomes monotonous. The song is expressively indicated _Slow: With pathos, yet simply_. _Slumber Song_ is a setting of some of the composer's own lines, "Dearest, sleep sound." The song presents a fairly good mating of words and music, and its expression is a lovable one, inimitably MacDowell-like in effect. OPUS 10. FIRST MODERN SUITE, FOR PIANOFORTE. _Composed, Frankfort, 1880. First Played, July 11th, 1882, by the composer, at the Ninth Annual Convention of the General Society of German Musicians, held at Zurich. First Published, 1883_ (Breitkopf & Härtel). _Dedicated to Mrs. Joachim Raff_. 1. _Præludium_. 2. _Presto_. 3. _Andantino and Allegretto_. 4. _Intermezzo_. 5. _Rhapsody_. 6. _Fugue_.