List of solo piano pieces, American

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Contents 1 Samuel Barber 2 John Cage 2.1 Other original compositions by Cage that may be performed on solo piano 3 Henry Cowell 4 Philip Glass 5 Charles Ives 6 Conlon Nancarrow 7 Leo Ornstein 8 Dane Rudhyar 9 Carl Ruggles

[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

• Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60" (1904–15, publ. 1920, rev. 1947)

[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.