Since the 1981 publication of the first edition, Cameron McGraw's Piano Duet Repertoire has been a trusted guide for duet performers. This second edition, edited and substantially expanded by Christopher and Katherine Fisher, brings the volume into the 21st century, adding over 500 new or updated composer entries and nearly 1,000 new work entries to the volume, a testament to the renewed interest in piano duet playing. Entries are arranged alphabetically by composer and include both pedagogical and concert repertoire. The annotations and the grade-level indications provide piano teachers a wealth of instructional guidance. The book also contains updated appendices listing collections and duet works with voice and other instruments. This new edition features a title index and a list of composers by nationality, making it a convenient and indispensable resource.
Since the 1981 publication of the first edition, Cameron McGraw's Piano Duet Repertoire has been a trusted guide for duet performers. This second edition, edited and substantially expanded by Christopher and Katherine Fisher, brings the volume into the 21st century, adding over 500 new or updated composer entries and nearly 1,000 new work entries to the volume, a testament to the renewed interest in piano duet playing. Entries are arranged alphabetically by composer and include both pedagogical and concert repertoire. The annotations and the grade-level indications provide piano teachers a wealth of instructional guidance. The book also contains updated appendices listing collections and duet works with voice and other instruments. This new edition features a title index and a list of composers by nationality, making it a convenient and indispensable resource.
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Since the 1981 publication of the first edition, Cameron McGraw's Piano Duet Repertoire has been a trusted guide for duet performers. This second edition, edited and substantially expanded by Christopher and Katherine Fisher, brings the volume into the 21st century, adding over 500 new or updated composer entries and nearly 1,000 new work entries to the volume, a testament to the renewed interest in piano duet playing. Entries are arranged alphabetically by composer and include both pedagogical and concert repertoire. The annotations and the grade-level indications provide piano teachers a wealth of instructional guidance. The book also contains updated appendices listing collections and duet works with voice and other instruments. This new edition features a title index and a list of composers by nationality, making it a convenient and indispensable resource.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780253020963 |
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| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Publication date: | 06/06/2024 |
| Series: | Indiana Repertoire Guides |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 735 |
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About the Author
Cameron McGraw (1919-1995) was Co-Director of the Jenkintown Music School and composer of numerous works for piano, orchestra, and chorus. His articles appeared in Piano Quarterly and Clavier, and he edited the anthology Four Centuries of Keyboard Music.
Christopher Fisher is Professor of Piano at Ohio University and author of Teaching Piano in Groups.
Katherine Fisher is an affiliate faculty member at the Athens Community Music School and performs with her husband Christopher in the award-winning Fisher Piano Duo.
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Piano Duet Repertoire
Music Originally Written for One Piano, Four Hands
By Cameron Mcgraw, Christopher Fisher, Katherine Fisher
Indiana University Press
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CHAPTER 1
Piano Duet Repertoire
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Aaronson, Sharon (b. 1950), United States Ameri can pianist, composer, arranger, editor, and teacher. Graduate of the Berklee College of Music with studies in jazz and Classical piano, jazz arranging, and composition.
Stompin'
Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1997.
A syncopated, toe-tapping tune. Performers are instructed to stomp their feet at strategic moments through out. Melody lies primarily in the primo while the sec ondo plays a boom-chick accompaniment.
Level: I
Abeille, Johann Christian Ludwig (1761–1838), Germany German pianist, court organist, director of music and conductor of the private orchestra of the Duke of Wurttemberg; composer of songs, stage entertainments, and piano music.
Grand concerto (D), Op. 6
Offenbach: André, 1793.
Written for harpsichord or piano with accompaniment of several instruments.
Sonate (C), Op. 22
Heilbronn: Johann Amon, n.d.
Despite an inclination toward excessive use of sequential passages and a general unevenness of quality, this two-movement sonata in Classical style is a flowing work with attractive harmonies and lyrical melodies (one of which bears more than a passing resemblance to the theme of Mozart's A major Rondo for solo piano). The rhapsodic character of the second-movement variations is especially intriguing, with frequent, unexpected cadenzas and sudden changes of meter.
Level: I
Six walses, Book 1 (D, G, C, g, B[flat], E[flat]); Book 2 (F, C, G, D, E[flat], a); Book 3 (C, e, G, D, Bb, Eb)
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, ca. 1808.
Instructional pieces for beginning pianists.
Level: I
Abesser, Edmund (1837–1889), Germany
German composer and musician.
Fruhlingsbluten
Cologne: P. J. Tonger, 1890.
Four pieces: I. Lied des Hirten; II. Jagdstuck; III. Durch grunende Felder; IV. Einsame Blume.
Level: I
Abril, Anton Garcia (b. 1933), Spain
Spanish composer and musician.
Homenaje a Copernico
Madrid: Bolamar Ediciones Musicales, 2009.
A three-movement work in fast-slow-fast construction. Rhythmically driven with pungent harmonic language. Fast octave passagework.
Level: LA
Adam, Johann Ludwig (Louis) (1705–1779)
Sonate
Publisher and date missing.
Symphonie concertante (F), Op. 5
Paris: Naderman et LeMenu, 1787.
For piano or harpsichord.
Adams, Mrs. Crosby (1858–1951), United States
Composer of educational piano music.
Barcarolle, Op. 2/1
Chicago: Clayton Summy, 1897.
Four Duets for Two Beginners, Op. 13
Boston, MA: Arthur P. Schmidt, 1906.
I. Boatman's Tune; II. The Nodding Grass Star; III. Old Folk Melody (The Hen and Her Chickens); A Voyage.
Level: UE–LI
Three Piano Duets in Unfamiliar Keys for Courageous Beginners (Song without Words;Peter Pan;Valse arabesque), Op. 20
Boston/Leipzig: A. P. Schmidt, 1907.
Adams, James O., England
A Duett for Two Performers on One Pianoforte
London: n.p. [1820].
Agafonnikov, Nikolai, Russia
Polka; Waltz; Russian Dance
In Agafonnikov, N., ed., Sbornik fortepiannikh.
Agay, Denes (1912–2007), Hungary
Hungarian-born American editor, arranger, educator, and composer.
Dance Toccata
New York: Sam Fox, 1962.
Sparkling, idiomatically written show piece in effective contemporary idiom.
Level: I
Aggházy, Károly (1855–1918), Hungary
Hungarian pianist and composer of stage works, orchestral and chamber music, and piano pieces in Romantic style with strong Hungarian folk flavor.
Poèmes hongrois, Op. 13
Berlin: Bote & Bock, 1887.
Spirited, rhythmical set of pieces.
Level: I
Rondo all'ongarese; Marcia, Op. 18
Berlin: Bote & Bock, 1886.
Agnew, Roy (1891–1944), Australia
Australian composer and pianist. Studied piano with Daisy Miller, Sydney Moss, and Emanuel de Beaupuis at the NSW Conservatorium. Composed mostly for the piano.
The Village Fair
London: Augener, 1932.
Teacher-student duet. The primo plays entirely in parallel motion at the octave.
Level: I/LI
Agthe, Wilhelm Johann Albrecht (1790–1873), Germany
German pianist and teacher; composed numerous piano works in traditional style, oft en pedagogical in purpose.
Trois grandes marches (E, a, f), Op. 6
Leipzig: Peters, 1816.
Level: I
Trois marches (E[flat], C, c), Op. 3
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1814.
Strong, rhythmic works in Classical style.
Level: I
Aguilar, F., Spain
Spanish composer.
Pitusines, four easy pieces
Madrid: Unión Musical Española, n.d.
Ahlberg, Tor (1913–2008), Sweden
Swedish pianist; has written pieces for orchestra, chamber groups, and piano.
Tvâ Bagateller (Two Bagatelles) (1938)
Manuscript photoprint.
Aitken, George (1866–1942), England
La mascarade, suite (Rendezvous; Dance; Le retour), Op. 14
London: Leonard, 1899.
Aitken, Hugh (1924–2012), United States
American teacher and composer.
Four Pieces, Four Hands (Arioso; Chorale; Canon; Song)
Philadelphia: Elkan-Vogel, 1965.
Very short pieces in mildly contemporary idiom; interesting sonorities and technical devices.
Level: I
Aitkens, Attica, United States
Lazybones Blues
Florence, KY: Willis Music, 1983.
An accessible and relaxed dovetailing melody with some syncopation.
Level: UE
Akimenko, Feodor Stepanovich (1876–1945), Russia
Russian composer; pupil of Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov; settled in France in 1917. His four-hand works show influence of French Impressionism and are idiomatically set with carefully balanced parts.
Quatre morceaux (Sur les Alpes, au printemps; Clair de lune sur les ruins du Forum Romanum;Au jardin de Luxembourg, les enfants; Sous les voûtes de NotreDame), Op. 41
Moscow/Leipzig: Jurgenson, 1909.
Six pièces ukraïniennes (Dumka; Do tantzu; Piznia; Vessila;
Listopad; Gretch aniki),
Op. 71
Paris: Salabert, 1925.
Level: I
Tableaux idylliques (Valle; Pastorale; Élégie: Danse rustique; Romanza), Op. 62
Leipzig: Jul. Zimmermann, 1914.
Level: I
Albéniz, Isaac (1860–1909), Spain
Spanish pianist and composer; student of Liszt. His works are written in a strongly Spanish nationalist idiom.
Aragón, fantasia
Madrid: Unión Musical Española, 1921.
Strongly rhythmical work in energetic Spanish style; attractive though not idiomatically set for four hands. The many doublings and frequent awkward collisions between the parts suggest a transcription, possibly by the composer, from an original two-hand version.
Level: I
d'Albert, Eugen (1864–1932), Germany
German pianist and composer of French descent and British birth; student of Liszt; brilliant pianist; wrote operas, choral works, chamber music, and piano compositions in late German Romantic style.
Theme and Variations in B Minor, Op. 124
Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann, 1870.
[12] Walzer, Op. 6
Berlin: Bote & Bock, 1888.
Twelve ingratiating suite of lilting waltzes somewhat reminiscent of Brahms's Liebeslieder in style and polish; worth reviving.
Level: I
Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg (1736–1809), Austria
Austrian theorist, teacher, and composer; much sought as teacher of counterpoint.
It is said he thought very little of the musical talent of his most famous pupil, Beethoven.
Prélude et fugue (B?)
Vienna: S. A. Steiner, ca. 1805, 1823(?)
Short, thin-textured academic work in Classical idiom; well distributed for both parts.
Level: I
Alexander, Dennis (b. 1947), United States
Composer, arranger, clinician, teacher, and pianist. Degrees from the University of Kansas. Prolific composer of educational piano music. Served as professor of piano and piano pedagogy at the University of Montana.
Just for You and Me, Book 1
Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1993.
Six elementary to lower intermediate duets: All Mixed Up; Chaser; Lean on Me; Reflections; Sentimental Waltz; Simple Dessert Rag. Expressive, lyrical style with fresh harmonies. Mixed meters, hemiola, and syncopation provide rhythmic challenges.
Level: E–LI
Just for You and Me, Book 2 Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1993.
Six intermediate duets: Cozy Nights; Czardas; Elegy; Fiesta Burlesca; Lazy Kind of Waltz; Thinking of You. Frequent meter and key changes provide challenge and interest.
Level: I
March in Cyberspace
Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1998.
A chromatic introduction sets a sly, mechanical mood. Melody lies entirely in the primo while the secondo supplies the accompaniment.
Level: UE
Preludium in D Major
Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1989.
A stately yet celebratory duet. Melody is passed between primo and secondo.
Level: LI
Star Gazing
Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1993.
Lyrical with flowing arpeggiated figures. Rich harmonic language.
Level: LI
Touch a Rainbow
Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 2010.
A duet arrangement of Mr. Alexander's beloved solo. Lush harmonies and sweeping melodies.
Level: I
Valse caprice
Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 1992.
A brilliant waltz that features frequent key changes and continuous eighth note patterns. A dazzling showpiece. Commissioned by the Madison Area Piano Teachers Association.
Level: I
Wild Horse Round-Up
Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 2004; also published in Contest Winners for Two, Book 2.
Spirited study in articulation. Primo plays some cross-hand arpeggios.
Level: UE
Alexander, Haim (1915–2012), Israel
Israeli teacher and composer.
Six Israeli Dances (arr. by the composer)
Tel Aviv: Israeli Music Publications, n.d.
Alexandrescu, Romeo (1902–1976), Romania Romanian composer and teacher.
Trei piese usoare pentru pian la patra mîini (Three Easy Pieces for Piano Four Hands) (1957)
Bucharest: Editura Muzicala, 1958.
Charming little instructional pieces based on Romanian folk songs.
Level: UE
Alford, Edith
A Day in the Woods
London: Elkin & Company, 1917.
Six short instructional pieces.
Level: E–UE
Alkan, Charles-Valentin (Morhange) (1813–1888), France
French virtuoso pianist; greatly respected by Liszt, Chopin, and other contemporaries; composed a quantity of études, préludes, and other bravura concert pieces.
Bombardo-Carillon
Paris: Gérard Billaudot, n.d.
This work was also transcribed by the composer for two performers, four feet, on organ pedals or pedal piano.
Level: UI–A
Finale, Op. 17
Paris: Gérard Billaudot, 1842.
Trois marches (A[flat], E[flat], B[flat]), Op. 40
Paris: Billaudot, n.d.
Rather long and technically demanding works containing the composer's characteristic writing: extended passage work, unexpected chromaticisms, and plenty of bombast. Fine textures alternate with thick chordal masses, always with enormous effect.
Level: UI–A
Allemande à trois, exécutée par Alexandre Casarti et ses deux soeurs, pour le pianoforte à deux et à quatre mains
Publisher missing, ca. 1830.
Allende Sarón, Pedro Humberto (1885–1959), Chile
Chilean violinist; teacher; and composer of symphonic and chamber music, piano pieces, and violin works; active in folk music research.
Seis piezas (Six Pieces) (Tempo di marcia; Minuetto; Gavotta; Corrente; Alemanda; Vals lento; Rigodón)
Santiago de Chile: Published by composer, 1948.
Charming, graceful suite of pieces in old forms.
Level: I/E-5
Alpert, Pauline (1900–1988), United States
March of the Blues
Melville, NY: Belwin, n.d.
Level: E
Amon, Johann Andreas (1763–1825), Germany
German horn virtuoso, conductor, and prolific composer of operas, masses, symphonies, chamber works, and piano music.
Sonate (F), Op. 67
Mainz: Schott, ca. 1815.
Sonate (B[flat]), Op. 100/6
Bonn/Cologne: Simrock, ca. 1823.
Three-movement work, similar in style to Op. 99, but longer and somewhat more difficult.
Level: I–UI
Deux sonates (C, E[flat]), Op. 99
Offenbach: André, ca. 1823.
Three-movement works of moderate length in late Classical style, with rhythmic vitality, interesting thematic development, and melodic charm; worth reviving.
Level: I
Six variations sur un air de Conradin Kreutzer ... cinquième air varié, Op. 119/5
Hannover: C. Bachmann, n.d.
Six walses (C, C, C, C, F, C), avec guitarre obligée, Op. 52
Offenbach: André, ca. 1809.
[5] Walzer (F, F, F, C, A) (seventh volume of waltzes), Op. 87
Wallerstein: Johann Amon, n.d.
Ancot, Jean (1799–1829), Belgium
Belgian pianist and prolific composer of violin pieces and piano works.
Favorite Air with Variations, Op. 221
London: Published by the composer, 1824.
Anderberg, Carl-Olof (1914–1972), Sweden
Swedish conductor, author, and composer. His musical style evolved through serial techniques into an advanced, highly complex personal idiom.
Als hätte ich vier Hände, Op. 60 (1967)
Manuscript.
Serious work of moderate length; dissonant; tightly organized structurally, with rhythmic complexities; technically demanding.
Level: A
Anderson, Leroy (1908–1975), United States
Composer and pianist. Studied piano at the New England Conservatory of Music, and harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, and composition at Harvard University, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees. Later studied towards a Ph.D. in German and Scandinavian languages at Harvard.
Fiddle Faddle
Van Nuys, CA: Belwin-Mills, 1983; published in Blue Ribbon Series: Favorite Piano Duets, Level Four, Volume 1.
A toe-tapping, lively work in D major. Secondo provides a boom-chick accompaniment above which the primo plays fast, nimble passagework.
Level: UI
Anderson, T. J. Jr. (b. 1928), United States
Five Portraits of Two People (Canvas; Contemplations; Capriciousness)
New York: American Composers Alliance-Composers Facsimile Edition, n.d.
Andersson, Margit E., Sweden
Fyra smâ händer. För piano fyra händer (Four Little Hands, for Piano Four Hands)
Stockholm: Nordiska Musikförlaget; Copenhagen: Hansen, 1946.
Level: E
Andersson, Richard (1851–1918), Sweden
Swedish pianist and pedagogue; pupil of Clara Schumann; professor at Stockholm Conservatory; composed songs and numerous piano pieces.
[12] Schwedische Tänze (d, B[flat], E[flat], g, e, G, f, c, A[flat], C, a, E)
Berlin: Simrock, 1881.
Suite of Swedish folk dances, contrasting in character, tempo, and texture, skillfully and imaginatively set in Romantic tonal idiom.
Level: I
André, Johann Anton (1775–1842), Germany
German pianist, violinist, teacher, businessman. His ingratiating four-hand compositions are instructional in character and written in a solid Classical idiom. The majority were published by the composer himself, who took over his father's publishing house in Offenbach. Although these tidy, well-balanced works make only modest demands on the performers, they are rich in rhythmical vitality and melodic grace.
Conversations musicales (Marche [E[flat]], Valse [E[flat]]), Op. 42
Offenbach: André, 1818.
Short amiable works.
Six divertissements (C, F, D, G, B[flat], d), Op. 18
Offenbach: André, ca. 1803.
Drei divertissements (C, E[flat], G), Op. 19
Offenbach: André, 1803.
Trois divertissements (C, a, F), Op. 20
Offenbach: André, 1803.
New Edition, Divertimento (a), Op. 20/2
In Zeitlin and Goldberger, eds., New York: Peters, 1961.
New Edition, Divertimento (F) No. 3, Op. 20/3
In Townsend, D., ed., Piano Duets of the Classical Period. Bryn Mawr, PA: Presser, 1956.
The three sets of divertissements, Opp. 18, 19, and 20, consist of charming, concise, one- and two-movement pieces; masterfully written; arranged in progressive difficulty; they should all be revived.
Level: LI–I
Trois marches (D, d, C), Op. 28
Offenbach: André, 1805.
Brief, rhythmical, attractive.
Level: LI–I
Douze morceaux faciles, Op. 44
Offenbach: André, n.d.
Sonate (C), Op. 12
Offenbach: André, ca. 1801.
Level: I
Trois sonates (C, F, e), Op. 46
Offenbach: André, 1821.
Level: I
Easy Sonata (C), Op. 56
Offenbach: André, n.d.
Level: I
Six Easy Sonatinas (C, G, F, d, D, B[flat]), Op. 45
Offenbach: André, 1820; New Edition: in Zeitlin and Goldberger, eds., Evanston, IL: Summy-Birchard, 1959.
Op. 45/1 (C)
In Eckard, ed., Forty-four Original Piano Duets.
Series of short, tuneful, workmanlike sonatinas.
Level: LI
Sonatina (C), Op. 73
Offenbach: André, n.d.
Neun leichte Stücke (C, C, D, F, F, g, Bb, C, G), Op. 72
Offenbach: André, n.d.
Brief, melodious pieces in progressive difficulty with contrasts of rhythm and texture.
Level: E–LI
André, Julius (1808–1880), Germany
German organist, pianist, and composer. Son of Johann Anton; best known for his four-hand arrangements of Mozart's orchestral works.
Six morceaux amusants, Op. 38
Offenbach: André, 1864.
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Table of Contents
Foreword, by the Anderson&Roe Duo
Preface, by Cameron McGraw
Acknowledgments from the original edition
Acknowledgments for the new edition
General Explanations
Sample Entry
Abbreviations
Piano Duet Repertoire
Appendix I: Collections of Four-Hand Music
Appendix II: Music for Piano, Four Hands with Voice(s) and/or Other Instrument(s)
Select Bibliography
Title Index
Alphabetical List of Composers by Nationality