Piano Solo - intermediate

SKU: HL.14020183

(Complete). Composed by Edward MacDowell. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 28 pages. Music Sales #NOV275979. Published by Music Sales (HL.14020183).

8.25x11.75x0.112 inches.

This album contais all ten of Edward Macdowell's Woodland Sketches, Op51.

Composed by Edward MacDowell (1861-1908). Arranged by F. Winterbottom. For concert band. BOVACO Classic CB. Extra condensed score. Published by BOVACO Music Publications

(2.2.2.2/2.2.3.1,timp,perc,str)

SKU: TM.06182SET

Composed by Edward MacDowell. Set Type: D. Set of parts. Published by Lucks Music Library (TM.06182SET).

To a Water Lily, From Uncle Remus, A Deserted Farm, By a Meadow Brook, Told at Sunset. P/C in set.

Concert Band/Harmonie - Grade 2

SKU: BT.AMP-026-010

Composed by Edward MacDowell. Arranged by Philip Sparke. Debut Series (Anglo). Festive and Solemn Music. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2002. Anglo Music Press #AMP 026-010. Published by Anglo Music Press (BT.AMP-026-010).

Edward MacDowell can be regarded as the first great American composer, although he disliked the idea of being classified as any sort of musical nationalist. He composed a large number of orchestral works but it is the charming and unpretentious suite of musical miniatures, Woodland Sketches, that has survived as his best-known work, with To a Wild Rose being the most popular. Philip Sparke has expertly arranged this simple work for concert band.

Philip Sparke bearbeitete dieses Stück des amerikanischen Komponisten Edward MacDowell, der weit über die Grenzen seines Heimatlandes hinaus berühmt ist. To a Wild Rose wurde seinem bekanntesten Werk, den Woodland Sketches, entnommen, einer Reihe anmutiger, unprätentiöser musikalischer Miniaturen. Hieraus ist To a Wild Rose das wohl populärste Stück, dessen Qualität Kritiker zu dem Urteil bewog, es sei so gut, wie der gesamte Rest von MacDowells Klaviermusik.

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) est considéré comme le premier grand compositeur américain de l’histoire de la musique, bien qu’il refusait avec vigueur d’être associé un quelconque courant musical nationaliste. Edward MacDowell a toujours considéré que la musique était une véritable langue internationale, et ses œuvres sont fortement influencées par le style de composition européen, et plus particulièrement par l’écriture allemande. Compositeur adulé de son vivant dans son pays natal et l’étranger, il était également un pianiste exceptionnel dont la virtuosité a impressionné l’un de ses plus brillants professeurs, Franz Liszt. Edward MacDowell a composé de nombreusesœuvres pour piano, un grand nombre de lieder ainsi que plusieurs œuvres orchestrales. Mais l’œuvre la plus connue de son répertoire est une charmante suite de miniatures musicales pour piano, Woodland Sketches, une composition modeste et stylistiquement simple dont est extraite la plus célèbre de ces miniatures To a Wild Rose (“ une rose sauvage”). L’étonnante sincérité de la mélodie fit dire un grand critique musical que cette mélodie valait toutes les œuvres pour piano réunies de MacDowell.

Organ

SKU: HL.14008939

Composed by Peter Dickinson. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book [Softcover]. 32 pages. Music Sales #NOV010237. Published by Music Sales (HL.14008939).

ISBN 9780853609551. 8.25x11.75x0.178 inches.

The Blue Rose Variations is one of several works in which the composer has drawn on ragtime and blues. The organ work is based on two transformations of the popular piano piece To A Wild Rose (Woodland Sketches, Op.51 No.1) by the American composer, Edward MacDowell (1860-1908). During the course of the Variations, To A Wild Rose appears as a blues and also as a classical rag, often as both together. The sections are Theme: a quiet blues; Variation I: a pedal solo in varied metres based on the blues in fast tempo; Variation II: the first appearance of the rag as a background to the blues as a 2' pedal solo; Variation III: a version of Variation I now involving manuals too; Variation IV: another blues solo against the rag; Variation V: another version of Variation I with the pedal solo almost entirely transferred to the manuals; Variation VI: a final confrontation between the blues and the rag, now much decorated. First performed in New York in April 1986. Duration c.15 mins.