From Piano Today magazine
- Georges Auric, Prelude (“Zsa-Zsa Sent Me”)
- C. V. Alkan, “I was Asleep, but My Heart was Awake” (Problematical names)
- C.P.E. Bach – Minuet (varied repeats)
- W. F. Bach – Polonaise “Bach’s Favorite Son: What Went Wrong?” (The bipolar Bach)
- W.F.E. Bach – Das Dreiblatt (abridged) “W.F.E. Bach’s Six-Handed Flower”
- Amy Beach – “Out in the Cold”
- “Beethoven’s Last Rose: A Folksong Transformed”
- “Beethoven, Waltz in D”
- “Beethoven’s Minuets”
- Bizet “The Secret Life of Bizet”
- Alexander Borodin, Paraphrases on “Chopsticks”
- H. T. Burleigh, “Through Moanin’ Pines” (Spirituals enter the concert repertoire)
- Juan Morel Campos, “Felices Dias: A Latin Dance” (339 danzas!)
- Pyotr Chaikovsky, “Nonconformist Key Signatures” (Volga Boat Song)
- Ernest Chausson – “Chausson’s Sarabande” (depression in music)
- Muzio Clementi, “What is an ‘Étude,’ Anyway?” (Étude in G minor) “too beautiful”)
- Samuel Coleridge Taylor – Valse in A-flat (a distinctive Edwardian)
- John Field, Siciliano (the trouble with categories)
- Carl Filtsch, Adieu (Chopin’s student)
- Stephen Foster – Old Folks at Home Variations (and Gershwin manuscripts)
- Leopold Godowsky – A Little Tango Rag (formal mash‑ups)
- Enrique Granados, Marcha Real (national anthems)
- Edvard Grieg – Giboen’s Bridal March (a tradition preserved)
- Edvard Grieg, “Grieg’s Norway Melodies” (Sjugurd and the Troll-Bride; disavowed, and then avowed)
- Reynaldo Hahn – Paulus Potter (Proust and Hahn collaborate)
- Josef Matthias Hauer, “The Mysterious Mr. Hauer” (“Now Reposes in its Abundance the Autumn Day;” did he invent twelve-tone music?)
- Victor Herbert’s Lament (Herbert and Ireland)
- Henri Herz, “Doodlin’ with Susanna” (“Variation on Oh, Susanna;” Herz and Rubinstein in the U.S.)
- Jacques Ibert, “A White Donkey on the Black Keys” (“The Little White Donkey”, tiger mothers and donkeys in music)
- Leos Janacek – Melody (missing footnotes)
- Kreisler/Godowsky – Rondino (Kreisler’s deceptions)
- Constant Lambert, “A Brit who Fell for Jazz” (“Elegiac Blues;” everyone loved Florence Mills)
- Ignaz Moscheles – Impromptu (a missing link composer)
- Rikard Nordraak – Valse‑Caprice (Norwegian musical nationalism’s beginning)
- Ignace Paderewski – Melody in B major (a neglected tonality?)
- Manuel Ponce – Intermezzo (what does “intermezzo” really mean?)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Rachmaninoff and Cinderella’s Coach
- Anton Rubinstein – Barcarolle in F minor (Russian barcarolles and meters)
- Erik Satie – First Sarabande (adumbrations of impressionist harmony)
- Schubert – Minuet
- Schubert ‑ R. Strauss – Kupelwieser Waltz (preserved by oral tradition)
- Robert Schumann – Albumleaf (thrown out of the carnival)
- Robert Schumann – *** (a crossed‑out coda)
- Robert Schumann – Fugue in F minor (an unacknowledge tribute to Chopin)
- Cyril Scott – Morning Song in the Jungle (musical Jungle Books)
- Johann Strauss, Jr. – Dolce (melody shared with Adele Waltzes)
- Jan Vaclav Vorisek – Rhapsody in G minor (an early rhapsodist)
- Hugo Wolf – Joking and Playing Slumber Song (late romanticism and the piano)
- The Sicilian Dilemma (Smith asks a diverse panel: where should Schumann’s Sizilianisch end?)
- Facing Up to Mixed Rhythms
- Sandor on Bartok
- Maynard Solomon: the man identified Beethoven’s “immortal beloved”
- Barbara Kingsolver discusses the importance of the piano in her life
From Piano magazine
- Sonata Timeline (traces innovations in the form)
- “Behind the Lines” (What is “interpretation?”)
- “On the Other Hand” (Are hand divisions a technical, aesthetic, or ethical issue?)
- “Tantrums and Tiaras” (against adjudication)
- “Just a Minuet” (Three famous “Minuets in G:” none is quite what it seems)
- “Riding the Crest” (Schumann’s “Little Study”)
From Magazine Art
- “Evenings with David Dubai” (Are pianists a “community?”)
From Journal of the American Liszt Society
- Three Misereres (Liszt, Gottschalk, and Jelly Roll Morton)
From Clavier magazine
From Smith’s anthology, “Rare Finds,” not posted here due to copyright restrictions
J. S. Bach – Adagio after Marcello (Bach shows us how to ornament)
Alfredo Catalani – In Dream (and Toscanini’s letters)
Ignacio Cervantes – The Peal of Laughter (a hat started it)
Claude Debussy – Hommage to Haydn (on Haydn’s name)
Europe and Dabney – The Castles’ Half and Half (a social dance in 5/4)
Mikhail Glinka – Barcarolle (Russian gondola)
Percy Grainger – The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol (and other Christmas music)
Enrique Granados – Memories of Infancy (return to childhood?)
Erich Korngold – Entr’acte (a “frightening” prodigy)
Edward MacDowell – In Deep Woods (middle pedal a metaphor)
Manuel Ponce – Despite All (inspired by a sculptor)
Antonin Reicha – Fugue No. 12 (but is it a fugue?)
Ottorino Respighi – Canon (piano canons are rare)
Gioacchino Rossini – A Caress for My Wife (a famous cupboard)
Franz Schubert – Hungarian Melody (late entering the repertoire)
Bedrich Smetana – Polka Poétique (not an oxymoron)
Billy Strayhorn – Valse (classical Strayhorn is still Strayhorn)
Carl Maria Von Weber – Andantino con moto (a romantic pioneer in every medium)