"The epicure with a keenly developed critical sense, and an exquisite appreciation of beauty in all its manifestations, takes the best from everything and knows the aesthetic value of variety and contrast." -- Maud Powell
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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
15. 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)
16. 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
17. 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
20. Maud Powell (1867–1920)
Cadenza for the first movement of the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
Manuscript facsimile
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. Marion Eugenie Bauer (1882–1955)
Up the Ocklawaha, Op. 6
25. Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (Amy Marcy Cheney Beach) (1867–1944)
Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
26. Herman Bellstedt Jr. (1858–1926)
Caprice on Dixie, for Violin (unaccompanied)
See annotation for No. 16
27. Cecil Burleigh (1885–1980)
Four Rocky Mountain Sketches, Op. 11:
At Sunset, The Rapids, Up the Cañon, The Avalanche
28. Henri Ern (1863–1923)
Menuet pour Violon et Piano, Op. 39, No. 1
29. Harry Mathena Gilbert (1879–1964)
Marionettes (Scherzo)
30. Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961)
Molly on the Shore
31. Molly on the Shore violin part revised by Maud Powell
32. Edwin A. Grasse (1884–1954)
Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 19
33. Edwin A. Grasse (1884–1954)
Wellenspiel (Waves at Play)
34. Edwin A. Grasse (1884–1954)
In a Row Boat (Im Ruderboot)
35. Edwin A. Grasse (1884–1954)
Polonaise No. 1 in C Major
36. Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) / Sol Marcosson (1869–1940)
To Spring (An den Früling), Op. 43, No. 6
37. William Henry Humiston (1869–1923)
Suite for Violin and Orchestra in F sharp minor
38. Henry Holden Huss (1862–1953)
Romance
39. Max Liebling (1845–1927)
Fantasia on Sousa Themes
Violin part edited by Rachel Barton Pine
40. Arthur Loesser (1894–1969)
California (Humoresque) (On a Tune by Paladilhe)
41. Edward A. MacDowell (1860–1908) / Arthur Hartmann (1881–1956)
Woodland Sketches, Op. 51:
To a Wild Rose
42. Ede Poldini (1869–1957) / Arthur Hartmann (1881–1956)
Marionnettes, No. 2:
Poupée Valsante (Waltzing Doll)
43. Carl Venth (1860–1938)
Aria