"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

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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