Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and MusicPorte, John Fielder
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Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music
Porte, John Fielder
Composers -- United States -- Biography; MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908
2. _As the Gloaming Shadows Creep_.
These are two effective male-voice choruses. The first number
being a setting of MacDowell's lines after Nithart, and the
second of verses by the composer, inspired by Frauenlob. These
latter beautiful lines were also used in number four of the _Four
Songs, Op. 56_.
MacDowell composed three part-songs for Female-Voice Choir. They
have no opus numbers and are entitled:--
_Summer Wind_.
_Two College Songs:
1. Alma Mater.
2. At Parting_.
They are well written and effective, the _College Songs_ being
particularly interesting, while _Summer Wind_ has one of the
composer's beloved nature subjects as its inspiration. Published
by Arthur P. Schmidt.
In addition to the _Six Little Sketches_ on pieces by Bach, and
the pieces contained in the albums entitled _From the Eighteenth
Century_, MacDowell also revised and edited for the pianoforte
the following compositions:--
Alkan-MacDowell, _Perpetual Motion_.
Cui, _Cradle Song_.
Dubois, _Sketch_.
Geisler, _Episode_.
Geisler, _Pastorale_.
Geisler, _The Princess Ilse_.
Glinka-Balakirev, _The Lark_.
Huber, _Intermezzo_.
Lacombe, _Etude_.
Liszt, _Eclogue_.
Liszt, _Impromptu_.
Martucci, _Improviso_.
Moszkowski, _Air de Ballet_.
Moszkowski, _Etincelles_.
Pierné, _Allegro Scherzando_.
Pierné, _Cradle Song_.
Pierné, _Improvista_.
Reinhold, _Impromptu_.
Rimsky-Korsakov, _Romance in A flat_.
Stcherbatcheff, _Orientate_.
Ten Brink, _Gavotte in E minor_.
Van Westerhout, _Gavotte in A_.
Van Westerhout, _Momenta Capriccioso_.
All Published by Arthur P. Schmidt.
The following compositions were arranged for Male-Voice Choir by
MacDowell:--
Beines, _Spring Song_.
Borodine, _Serenade_.
Filke, _The Brook and the Nightingale_.
Moniuszko, _The Cossack_.
Rimsky-Korsakov, _Folk Song_.
Sokolow, _Spring_.
Sokolow, _From Siberia_.
Von Holstein, _Bonnie Katrine_.
Von Woss, _Under Flowering Branches_.
All Published by Arthur P. Schmidt.
MacDowell also wrote _Technical Exercises for the Pianoforte_ (_2
Books_), in addition to the Studies comprising Ops. 39 and 46.
They were at one time obtainable from Arthur P. Schmidt.
TRANSCRIPTIONS.
A number of well-known MacDowell pianoforte pieces have been
transcribed for other instruments. The transcriptions are all
published by Arthur P. Schmidt, and are as follows:--
ORGAN.
SIX TRANSCRIPTIONS, SERIES 1.
By Frederick N. Shackley.
_Idylle_ (_Starlight, _Op. 55, No. 4_).
_Pastorale_ (_To a Wild Rose, _Op. 51, No. 1_).
_Romance_ (_At an Old Trysting Place, _Op. 51, No. 3_).
_Legend_ (_A Deserted Farm, _Op. 51, No. 8_).
_Reverie_ (_With Sweet Lavender, _Op. 62, No. 4_).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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