Pianophilia

What a lovely collection of American pieces....so many unknown to me. I've spent a very profitable evening playing through these volumes. Thanks for these wonderful collections, Jim.

fleubis wrote:What a lovely collection of American pieces....so many unknown to me. I've spent a very profitable evening playing through these volumes. Thanks for these wonderful collections, Jim.

You're quite welcome. I felt these needed to be shared.

Sincerest apologies if this is not the thread to post this reply/entry but please hear me out as I was looking for this music for quite some time and had to go to considerable lengths to obtain it. I hope others will appeciate my efforts to help the community/fans of this music have access to an increasingly rare (it is in fact VERY RARE already) score/score set., or at the very least discover a delightful set of piano pieces/transcriptions

John Williams
Home Alone Solo Piano
source:
http://www.johnwilliams.org/reference/sheetmusic2.html

Home Alone
Warner Bros. VF1695
1990, 16 pp.,

"Somewhere in My Memory"
Holiday Flight
The House
"Star of Bethlehem"
Glorious Thieves

(NMS - Chicago Public Library PDF)**

*contact me via PM (an email address ) and I will reply with my email address and send it to you directly, I will be attaching to the email, I will not be uploading this to any type of file hosting/download server.
**sent to me directly by someone (non pp board member/outside contact)

I wanted to make this available by request and via direct email/non pp mediated form only (per pp board policy to not upload works of living composers without written permission) becuase of the considerable trouble I had trying to locate this set of piano scores. It is out of print, and incredibly (scratch that, next to all but impossibly) difficult to locate for purchase either new, used , or even digital purchase option download (even sites with active catalogue entries for the works have come up as "not available for purchase"). There is probably a lone scan of the famous "Somewhere in my memory" floating about on the interwebs but the album/set to my knowledge cannot be found by any means.

The music is incredibly lovely.

Scriabinoff wrote:Sincerest apologies if this is not the thread to post this reply/entry but please hear me out as I was looking for this music for quite some time and had to go to considerable lengths to obtain it.

I might've been able to get a hard copy of this at the deadbeat local music store I used to work at. That place had reams of movie music from the past 30 years that nobody ever felt like purchasing.

Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) - American Romatic composer. Much of his music has now disappeared into obscurity although they were once performed by the likes of Gabrilovitch, Paderewski and Hofmann [especially the Elegy]. A few of his works also available on IMSLP and bio on Wikipedia. Here are three of his more substantial compositions plus the lighter preludes.

Malcolm

Op 2 Elegy [and yes, pages 11 and 19 are handwritten as they reflect the composer's revised edition]. Op 16 No. 1 Impromptu Op 16 No. 2 Ballade Op 33 Three Preludes

Thank you for the very nice Mason pieces, Malcolm.

William C. Steere Valse Rubato: Ralph Deane Shure (1885-1962) Lyric Washington:

A nice little set of pieces by Paul DeLaunay: Quatre Poèmes Mystiques, Op26: Organ transcriptions by Carl McKinley of numbers 2 and 3 can be found in volume two of Solo to Great here:
http://hdl.handle.net/1802/11891

Biographical info can be found here:
http://www.fold3.com/page/284275220_paul_delaunay/

Jim Faston wrote:A nice little set of pieces by Paul DeLaunay: Quatre Poèmes Mystiques, Op26:

de Launay_Quatre Poèmes Mystiques, Op26.pdf

Organ transcriptions by Carl McKinley of numbers 2 and 3 can be found in volume two of Solo to Great here:
http://hdl.handle.net/1802/11891

Biographical info can be found here:
http://www.fold3.com/page/284275220_paul_delaunay/

Thanks Jim - a new composer to me and am curious to read/play through these pieces. Thanks for the posting.

Malcolm

mballan wrote:

Jim Faston wrote:A nice little set of pieces by Paul DeLaunay: Quatre Poèmes Mystiques, Op26:

de Launay_Quatre Poèmes Mystiques, Op26.pdf

Organ transcriptions by Carl McKinley of numbers 2 and 3 can be found in volume two of Solo to Great here:
http://hdl.handle.net/1802/11891

Biographical info can be found here:
http://www.fold3.com/page/284275220_paul_delaunay/

Thanks Jim - a new composer to me and am curious to read/play through these pieces. Thanks for the posting.

Malcolm

I hope you enjoy them--this is the only score of his I've come across.