Piano Music of North America (Canada & the USA)

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Anyone have a score of André Mathieu or Rodolphe Mathieu? I will like to find a score of one of his 4 piano concertos.

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Anyone have a score of André Mathieu or Rodolphe Mathieu? I will like to find a score of one of his 4 piano concertos.

Joseph Rodolphe Mathieu (10 July 1890 – 29 June 1962) any copyright issue???

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Anyone have a score of André Mathieu or Rodolphe Mathieu? I will like to find a score of one of his 4 piano concertos.

Joseph Rodolphe Mathieu (10 July 1890 – 29 June 1962) any copyright issue???

IMSLP says he is public domain in Canada, but in 2022 the Canadian Copyright Act extended copyright to "the life of the author, the remainder of the calendar year in which the author dies, and a period of seventy years following the end of that calendar year" implying 2033 is when he enters the public domain.
https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Mathieu,_Rodolphe

Is anyone up to date with IMSLP discussions on this?

[Oenanthic]

There's been some talk of David W. Guion on this thread in the past; I'm quite a fan of his music. I don't know how much of a contribution this will be (the pieces are already somewhat widely distributed, though not online), but here are scans of two of his more characteristic pieces, the three-part "Alley Tunes" suite and his virtuoso transcription of "The Arkansas Traveler":

Guion, David W, Alley Tunes.pdf

Guion, David W, Arkansas Traveler.pdf

Does anyone have any other pieces by Guion? I'm especially looking for his four early waltzes: Southern Nights, Minuet, Waltz of Sorrow, and Valse Arabesque. The only one I could find was a compressed version of Waltz of Sorrow in Etude magazine, but I'd like to be able to see the original, since the Etude editors seem to have overhauled the pedaling (as they always do).

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Here are a couple more:

Guion, David - Pickaninny Dance (1922).pdf

Guion, David - Sheep and Goat (1922).pdf

Guion, David - Texas Fox Trot (1917).pdf

Guion, David - Turkey In The Straw (1919).pdf

Plus it looks like IMSLP has a few:

• 2 Darkey Songs

• John de Bap-a-tist

• My Little Soul's Gwine a Shine

• Some O' these Days

• You Jes' Will Git Ready, You Gwine a Die

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There's been some talk of David W. Guion on this thread in the past; I'm quite a fan of his music. I don't know how much of a contribution this will be (the pieces are already somewhat widely distributed, though not online), but here are scans of two of his more characteristic pieces, the three-part "Alley Tunes" suite and his virtuoso transcription of "The Arkansas Traveler":


Guion, David W, Alley Tunes.pdf
Guion, David W, Arkansas Traveler.pdf


Does anyone have any other pieces by Guion? I'm especially looking for his four early waltzes: Southern Nights, Minuet, Waltz of Sorrow, and Valse Arabesque. The only one I could find was a compressed version of Waltz of Sorrow in Etude magazine, but I'd like to be able to see the original, since the Etude editors seem to have overhauled the pedaling (as they always do).

Southern Nights was published by Schirmer (cover: www.amazon.com/Southern-Nights-Valse-Pi ... B08BZ11BNK )

There's a somewhat dated list of holdings of his works here: http://thompsonian.info/guion-music.html

Two recordings of Guion's piano music from 1980 (Steve Buchanan) and 1993 (Eugene Rowley) have these works on them. I haven't found any contact info for either pianist.

[Oenanthic]

Behold, the mostly-complete piano works (through 1902) of Charles Astin, aka Carl Lexhoizt! This folio comes to us courtesy of Emory University, which possesses what may be the only copy.

https://mega.nz/file/D6IiQQ4a#CDFmHMQvP ... Bm39kaIEPA

(I've linked to my own personal online storage because the file is over 100 MB.)

Copied, with edits, from my previous post about him:

Charles Astin, a lifelong resident of Newnan, Georgia, was a ragtime pioneer who composed the famous proto-rags "A La Georgia Jubilee" and "The Ebony Funeral," among others. He was also blind, and we have records of his attendance at the Georgia Academy for the Blind from 1871-1883. His first known piece, "Golden Rain Galop" (of which no copy has yet been located), was published by Oliver Ditson & Co. the year he graduated.

In 1889, Astin became a piano salesman, and to draw his customers' interest, he began to note down and arrange the songs sung by African-American laborers in his area into syncopated medleys. Concerned that a link with such music might damage his professional reputation, he published the medleys as "Carl Lexhoizt." The rest, as they say, was history.

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Behold, the mostly-complete piano works (through 1902) of Charles Astin, aka Carl Lexhoizt! This folio comes to us courtesy of Emory University, which possesses what may be the only copy.

Thank you for this collection. For ease of use, I've cropped, deskewed and brightened the score:

EDIT: updated version with page order fix and improved pp102 & 114 noted in comments below

ASTIN (LEXHOIZT) Sounds from Georgia (rev).pdf

Please advise any pages which might have been omitted, over-scrubbed or over-cropped.

[Oenanthic]

Thank you for this cleaned version! That is much more convenient.

You've done a very good job with the scrubbing. The only two places I think are really over-scrubbed are the last page, p. 114, and the upper left part of p. 102. Besides that, p. 22 (the beginning of "Hobson Kiss Waltz") has gotten transposed to before p. 19 (the beginning of "Walking Egypt").

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Thank you for this cleaned version! That is much more convenient.

You've done a very good job with the scrubbing. The only two places I think are really over-scrubbed are the last page, p. 114, and the upper left part of p. 102. Besides that, p. 22 (the beginning of "Hobson Kiss Waltz") has gotten transposed to before p. 19 (the beginning of "Walking Egypt").

Issues noted and addressed. I've udpated the attachment to my post above.

p114 was difficult as the light source across the page was variable,requiring dozens if not hundreds of spot corrections rather than a global adjustment ... with diminishing returns after a certain point.