List of solo piano pieces, American

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[edit] Samuel Barber

  • Excursions (4), op. 20 (1942–44)
  • Piano Sonata, op. 26 (1949)

[edit] John Cage

  • Three Easy Pieces (1933)
  • Quest (1935)
  • Two Pieces for Piano (1935, rev. 1974)
  • Metamorphosis (1938)
  • Bacchanale for prepared piano (1940; frequently misdated 1938)
  • Opening Dance for Sue [Laub] (ca. 1940–41)
  • And the Earth Shall Bear Again for prepared piano (1942)
  • Primitive for prepared piano (1942)
  • In the Name of the Holocaust for prepared piano (1942)
  • Totem Ancestor for prepared piano (1942)
  • Jazz Study (ca. 1942; attributed)
  • Ad Lib (1942–43)
  • A Room (1943; for piano or prepared piano)
  • Our Spring Will Come for prepared piano (1943)
  • Tossed As It Is Untroubled for prepared piano (1943; orig. Meditation)
  • Triple-Paced No. 1 (1943)
  • The Perilous Night for prepared piano (1943–44)
  • Four Walls (1944; the ninth of its sixteen parts is for solo voice)
  • Prelude for Meditation for prepared piano (1944)
  • Root of an Unfocus for prepared piano (1944)
  • Spontaneous Earth for prepared piano (1944)
  • Triple-Paced No. 2 for prepared piano (1944)
  • The Unavailable Memory of for prepared piano (1944)
  • A Valentine Out of Season for prepared piano (1944)
  • Daughters of the Lonesome Isle for prepared piano (1945)
  • Mysterious Adventure for prepared piano (1945)
  • Soliloquy (1945; excerpted from Four Walls)
  • Crete (ca. 1945)
  • Dad (ca. 1945)
  • Ophelia (1946)
  • Two Pieces for Piano (1946; adapted for inclusion in The Seasons)
  • Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946–48)
  • Music for Marcel Duchamp for prepared piano (1947)
  • The Seasons (1947)
  • Dream (1948)
  • In a Landscape (1948; for piano or harp solo)
  • Our Spring Will Come for prepared piano (1948)
  • Suite for Toy Piano (1948)
  • Music for Works of Calder for prepared piano (1949–50; the second of its three sequences is for magnetic tape)
  • Haiku (1950–51)
  • Music of Changes (1951)
  • Seven Haiku (1951–52)
  • Two Pastorales for prepared piano (1951–52)
  • 4'33" (1952, 2d ver. ca. 1960; "for any instrument or combination of instruments"—first performed on solo piano)
  • For MC and DT (1952)
  • Music for Piano No. 1 (1952)
  • Waiting (1952)
  • Music for Piano No. 2 (1953)
  • Music for Piano No. 3 (1953)
  • Music for Piano No. 4–19 (1953; for any number of pianos)
  • 34'46.776" For a Pianist for prepared piano (1954)
  • 31'57.9864" For a Pianist for prepared piano (1954)
  • Music for Piano No. 21–36; 37–52 (1955; for piano solo or ensemble)
  • Music for Piano No. 53–68; 69–84 (1956; for piano solo or ensemble)
  • Winter Music (1957; for one to twenty pianos)
  • TV-Köln (1958; for "piano with or without other instruments or objects")
  • Variations I (1958; for "any number of performers; any kind and number of instruments"—first performed on solo piano)
  • Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960; for any number of toy pianos)
  • Variations II (1961; "for any number of players and any sound producing means"—first performed on solo piano)
  • Variations III (1962–63; "for one or any number of people performing any actions"—first performed on solo piano)
  • Cheap Imitation (1969; based on Erik Satie's Socrate)
  • Etudes Boreales I–IV (1978; for piano and/or cello)
  • Perpetual Tango (1984; based on Erik Satie's Sports et divertissements)
  • ASLSP (1985; for piano or organ solo)
  • One (1987)
  • One2 (1989; for solo performer on one to four pianos)
  • Sports: Swinging (1989; based on Erik Satie's La balançoire from Sports et divertissements)
  • One5 (1990)

[edit] Other original compositions by Cage that may be performed on solo piano

  • Party Pieces (Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses) (ca. 1944–45; for "any melody or keyboard instruments"; with Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Virgil Thomson)
  • Haiku (1958) (1958; for "any kind of sound production")
  • Theatre Piece (1960; "for 1–8 performers")
  • 0'00" (4'33" No. 2) (1962; "solo to be performed in any way by anyone")
  • Variations IV (1963; "for any number of players, any sounds or combinations of sounds produced by any means, with or without other activities")
  • Sound Anonymously Received (1969; "for an unsolicited instrument")
  • 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (1977; "for performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s)")
  • A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity (1978; "for performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s)")
  • One7 (1990; "for any way of producing sounds"—first performed by John Cage on unidentified instrument)

[edit] Henry Cowell

  • Anger Dance (1914; orig. Mad Dance)
  • Dynamic Motion (1916; frequently misdated 1914)
  • The Tides of Manaunaun (1917; frequently misdated 1911 or 1912)
  • What's This? (First Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917)
  • Amiable Conversation (Second Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917)
  • Advertisement (Third Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917)
  • Antinomy (Fourth Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917, rev. 1959; frequently misspelled "Antimony")
  • Time Table (Fifth Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917)
  • The Trumpet of Angus Og (1918–24)
  • Fabric (1920)
  • Vestiges (1920)
  • The Voice of Lir (1920)
  • The Sword of Oblivion for string piano (ca. 1920–22)
  • Exultation (1921)
  • The Hero Sun (1922)
  • Nine Ings (1922)
  • Piece for Piano with Strings (1923; for solo string piano, despite possibly confusing title)
  • Aeolian Harp for string piano (ca. 1923)
  • A Rudhyar (1924)
  • The Harp of Life (1924)
  • Snows of Fujiyama (1924)
  • The Banshee for string piano (1925)
  • Slow Jig (1925)
  • The Leprechaun (1928)
  • Euphoria (1929)
  • Fairy Answer (1929)
  • Lilt of the Reel (1930)
  • Tiger (1930)
  • Sinister Resonance for string piano (ca. 1930)
  • Deep Color (1938)
  • High Color (ca. late 1930s–early 1940s)
  • Elegie (for Hanya Holm) (1941)

[edit] Philip Glass

  • A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close-Movement I
  • A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close-Movement II
  • Dreaming Awake
  • Metamorphosis One
  • Metamorphosis Two
  • Metamorphosis Three
  • Metamorphosis Four
  • Metamorphosis Five
  • Wichita Sutra Vortex
  • Mad Rush
  • Modern Love Waltz

[edit] Charles Ives

[edit] Conlon Nancarrow

  • Studies (50) for Player Piano (late 1940s–early 1980s)

[edit] Leo Ornstein

  • Wild Men's Dance (aka Danse Sauvage; ca. 1913–14)
  • Three Moods (ca. 1914)
  • Poems of 1917 (10) (1917)
  • A la Chinoise (pre-1918)
  • Suicide in an Airplane (ca. 1918–19; frequently misdated 1913)
  • Impressions of the Thames (aka Impressions de la Tamise; 1920)
  • Arabesques (9) (1921)
  • Piano Sonata No. 4 (1924)
  • Piano Sonata No. 5, "Biography" (1974)
  • Piano Sonata No. 6 (1981)
  • Piano Sonata No. 7 (1988)
  • Piano Sonata No. 8 (1990)

[edit] Dane Rudhyar

  • Trois Poëmes (1913)
  • Syntony (1919–24, rev. 1967; assembled from four pieces: Dithyramb, Eclogue, Oracle, and Apotheosis)
  • Tetragrams (9) (1920–67)
  • Pentagrams (4) (1924–26)
  • Three Paeans (1925–27)
  • Granites (1929)
  • Three Cantos (1977)

[edit] Carl Ruggles

  • Evocations (Four Chants for Piano) (1937–43)

See also Lists of solo piano pieces.

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