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The Maud Powell Society  |  SKU: 9781885824011
  • Composer: Maud Powell (1867-1920)
  • Editor: Rachel Barton Pine
  • Format: Books & CD
  • Instrumentation: Violin
  • Size: 8.9 x 11.8 inches

Description

43 rare masterworks for the violin

Contents:

Volume One

  • Historical Introduction and Annotations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Word about Sources
  • Key to Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Maud Powell, "The Grand Woman of American Music"
  • Maud Powell's Letter Concerning Herself as a Musician
  • Pioneering the Violin Recital in America
  • Recital Programming
  • The Role of Transcriptions
  • Recordings
  • Program Notes
  • Characteristics of Maud Powell's Transcriptions
  • Missing Transcriptions
  • Maud Powell's Legacy through the Violin Recital
  • Championing Music by American Composers
  • Commentary on the Music, Parts I–VI

Volumes Two, Three and Four

Music

Part I. Maud Powell's Transcriptions of European Music

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) / Maud Powell Minuet in G Major, WoO 10, No. 2
  2. Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) / Maud Powell Six Quintets, Op. 11, String Quintet No. 5 in E Major, G. 275, III: Minuet
  3. Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) / Maud Powell Waltz No. 6 in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, "Minute"
  4. François Couperin (1668–1733) / Maud Powell Pièces de clavecin, Book I, Première Ordre in G Minor, No. 17: La fleurie ou La tendre Nanette / La Fleurie
  5. Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) / Fritz Kreisler / Revised and adapted by Maud Powell Eight Humoresques, Op. 101, No. 7: Humoresque in G-flat Major
  6. Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) / Maud Powell Zigeunermelodien (Gypsy Melodies), Op. 55, IV: Als die alt Mutter / Songs My Mother Sang
  7. Christoph W. Gluck (1714–1787) / Maud Powell Orphée et Eurydice, Act II, Scene ii: Dance of the Blessed Spirits / Melody
  8. Adolf Jensen (1837–1879) / Maud Powell Serenade (Ständchen), Op. 32, No. 9 / Serenata
  9. Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (1741–1816) / Maud Powell Love's Delight (Plaisir d'amour)
  10. Jules Massenet (1842–1912) / Maud Powell Poèmes pastorale, No. 4: Crépuscule / Twilight
  11. Selim Palmgren (1878–1951) / Maud Powell Kevät (Spring), Op. 27, No. 4: Kevätyö (May Night)
  12. Nikolay A. Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) / Maud Powell Sadko: Song of the Indian Trader Chanson Indoue (Song of India)
  13. Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) / Maud Powell King Christian II Suite, Op. 27, III: Musette
  14. Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) / Friedrich Hermann / Revised and adapted by Maud Powell Valse Triste, Op. 44, No. 1

Part II. Maud Powell's Transcriptions of American Music

  1. Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864) / Luke Schoolcraft (1847–1893) / Henry Clay Work (1832–1884) / Maud Powell Plantation Melodies: My Old Kentucky Home (Foster); Shine On (Schoolcraft); Old Black Joe (Foster); Kingdom Comin' (Work)
  2. Dan Emmett (1815–1904) / Maud Powell (1867-1920) after Herman Bellstedt Jr. (1858–1926) Caprice on Dixie, for Violin (unaccompanied) Includes annotation for No. 26
  3. H(art) P(ease) Danks (1834–1903) / Maud Powell Silver Threads Among the Gold

Part III. Maud Powell's Transcriptions of African-American Music

Introduction 18. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) / Maud Powell Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 10: Deep River 19. J(ohn) Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) / Maud Powell Nobody Knows the Trouble I See

Part IV. Maud Powell's Original Cadenza for the Brahms Violin Concerto

  1. Maud Powell (1867–1920) Cadenza for the first movement of the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 Manuscript facsimile
  2. Maud Powell (1867–1920) Cadenza for the first movement of the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 Edited by Rachel Barton Pine

Part V. Music Analyzed or Edited by Maud Powell

  1. Maud Powell's Story and Analysis of Henri Vieuxtemps' Arkansas Traveller Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881) Bouquet américain, Op. 33, No. 6: Arkansas Traveller and Banjo Tune
  2. Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880) Légende for violin and piano, Op. 17 Edited and with an analytical lesson by Maud Powell

Part VI. Original Music and Transcriptions Dedicated to, Commissioned by, or Closely Associated with Maud Powell

  1. Marion Eugenie Bauer (1882–1955) Up the Ocklawaha, Op. 6
  2. Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (Amy Marcy Cheney Beach) (1867–1944) Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
  3. Herman Bellstedt Jr. (1858–1926) Caprice on Dixie, for Violin (unaccompanied) See annotation for No. 16
  4. Cecil Burleigh (1885–1980) Four Rocky Mountain Sketches, Op. 11: At Sunset, The Rapids, Up the Cañon, The Avalanche
  5. Henri Ern (1863–1923) Menuet pour Violon et Piano, Op. 39, No. 1
  6. Harry Mathena Gilbert (1879–1964) Marionettes (Scherzo)
  7. Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961) Molly on the Shore
  8. Molly on the Shore violin part revised by Maud Powell
  9. Edwin A. Grasse (1884–1954) Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 19
  10. Edwin A. Grasse (1884–1954) Wellenspiel (Waves at Play)
  11. Edwin A. Grasse (1884–1954) in a Row Boat (Im Ruderboot)
  12. Edwin A. Grasse (1884–1954) Polonaise No. 1 in C Major
  13. Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) / Sol Marcosson (1869–1940) To Spring (An den Früling), Op. 43, No. 6
  14. William Henry Humiston (1869–1923) Suite for Violin and Orchestra in F-sharp Minor
  15. Henry Holden Huss (1862–1953) Romance
  16. Max Liebling (1845–1927) Fantasia on Sousa Themes Violin part edited by Rachel Barton Pine
  17. Arthur Loesser (1894–1969) California (Humoresque) (On a Tune by Paladilhe)
  18. Edward A. MacDowell (1860–1908) / Arthur Hartmann (1881–1956) Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: To a Wild Rose
  19. Ede Poldini (1869–1957) / Arthur Hartmann (1881–1956) Marionnettes, No. 2: Poupée Valsante (Waltzing Doll)
  20. Carl Venth (1860–1938) Aria