Americans: Joplin (1868–1917); Gershwin (1898–1937); Florence Price; (1887–1953);
Joplin: {scores are on IMSLP]
Maple Leaf Rag (1899)
The Sycamore (1904)
Albright
Gershwin: Preludes (1926) [LINK TO SCORE]
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Andante con moto e poco rubato
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Tilson Thomas
Price:
Piano Sonata in E Minor [analysis] (1932)
Andante—Allegro
Andante
Scherzo
Waites
Reading:
Addison W. Reed: “Scott Joplin, Pioneer” Part 1 and Part 2. BPM 3/1 and 3/3; pp. 45–52 and 269–277
Barbara Garvey Jackson: “Florence Price, Composer,” The Black Perspective in Music, Spring, 1977, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 30-43
Ives (1874–1954); The importance of Nadia Boulanger. Aaron Copland (1900–1990); Carter (1908–2012)
Ives: Piano Sonata No.2 “Concord, Mass. 1840–60”(1911–20, rev. 1947)
“Emerson”
“Hawthorne”
“The Alcotts”
“Thoreau”
Kalish
Copland:
Piano Variations (1930) [LINK TO SCORE]
Tocco
Carter:
Piano Sonata (1945–6)
Rosen
Reading:
Ives: Essays before a Sonata—Prologue
David Michael Herz: “Ives’s Concord Sonata and the Texture of Music“, in Charles Ives and His World, ed. J. Peter Burkholder, Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 75–117
Douglas Young: “Copland: The Piano Music”. Tempo 95, 1971, pp. 15–22
Robert Below: “Elliot Carter’s piano Sonata”. MR 34/3–4, 1973 pp. 282–293
OPTIONAL: Solomon, Maynard. “Charles Ives: Some Questions of Veracity.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 40, no. 3 (1987): 443-70. Accessed October 18, 2020. doi:10.2307/831676.
David Cartledge 