The Piano Music of Ernst Bacon : Published and Recorded Works

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Title	Type	Description	Recording	Publisher
The Battle of Jericho	2 Pianos 4 Hands	"A four hand extravaganza on a battle tune" — EB		American Music Edition 1962
The Burr Frolic	2 Pianos 4 Hands	"Title inexplicable, yet agreeably exasperating" — EB		Associated Music Publishers (G. Schirmer) 1944
Byways	Solo	Twenty nine pieces based on folk tunes from many countries Pilgrim Hymn The Flibertigibbet Crooghan A Venee My Evaline Slumber Song Putman's Hill Gentle Annie A Kansas Cowboy John Anderson, My Jo Cavaleer Dansen Shepherd Maid A Sorcery I Thank You For Your Love Fenesta Vascia Goober Peas Incantation Cold Blows The Wind Garufalia The Brown Maid Br'er Rabbit Soldiers On The March Eyes Dim With Love The Gimcrack La Scillitana The Reel Of Tullochgorum Nolichucky River Sad Betrayal Lost Star The Hebrew Children		G. Schirmer 1965
Camp Meeting	Solo	Teaching piece		Theodore Presser 1963 get score
The Coal Scuttle Blues	2 Pianos 4 Hands	Co-written by Otto Leuning "Jazz, sophistically corned" — EB	recording available	Associated Music Publishers (G. Schirmer) 1944
Drip-Drop Rain	Solo		recording available
Flight	Solo	"A bravura piece" — EB		Boosey & Hawkes 1949
Flop-Eared Mule	Solo		recording available
Four Notes	Solo	Twelve short teaching pieces based on a 4 note motive Doremifa Doremido Soladosi Famidore Dosilasol Dorefami Solfaremi Soladosido Soladosila Remisolfa Dosisola Lasolmifa		Franco Colombo 1963
Friends	Solo	Eight lyric teaching pieces Thinking The Pipe Organ The Boy's Choir Friends Follow the Leader Grace Exhilaration The Cathedral		Franco Colombo 1963
Habanera	Solo		recording available
The Hootnanny	1 or 2 Pianos 4 Hands	"Ten pieces, four hands Americana" — EB Come In Go To Sleep, Little Child The Boston Boy Betty Anne Swannanoah Oyster River The Spire at Hancock, NH Cripple Creek The Brave Volunteer Leather Britches		currently in print: Summy-Birchard 1995 get score Chappell & Co. 1954
It's a Kid's World	Solo	Fourteen lyric pieces for children In a Hurry The Bell Tower Doodle-Bug Fog Horn After School Places on the Map Wounded Bird Ancestors First Time Skating Snake in the Grass Hopscotch Night at the Opera Sunday Heidi		currently in print: Summy-Birchard 1992 get score published with the original title "My World" Summy-Birchard 1961
Kankakee River	2 Pianos 4 Hands	"A two piano, mid-western stomp" — EB		Wesley Webster 1935
The Lobo Girl of Devil's River, Texas	Solo	read the story of the Lobo Girl of Devil's River	recording available	get score
Maple-Sugaring	Solo	Ten rural tunes Lavender Waltz In And Out The Window The Cuckoo Nuka Maple-Sugaring The Old Woman Who Went To Market The Pretty Milkmaid Pretty Saro The Burro	recording available	Lawson-Gould / G. Schirmer 1955
Melodious Sonnet	Solo	Teaching piece		Theodore Presser 1963 get score
Patriotic American Melodies	Solo	Nine arrangements of well known and lesser known patriotic songs The Liberty Song Hail Columbia Yankee Doodle Dixie When Johnnie Comes Marching Home The Star-Spangled Banner Bunker Hill Tramp, Tramp, Tramp America		Theodore Presser 1963 get score
The Pigtown Fling	Solo		recording available
Places	Solo	Ten pieces on geographic locations Fog Over Calais Gnaw Bone, IN Finger Lake Hills Auxerre Mozart Haus in Salzburg Canon de Chelly Fording the Chama River Ruwenzori Yemassee River, SC Petticoat Slide, TN	recording of Yemassee River available	currently in print: Blue Cloud Publishing 2004 get score
The River Queen	2 Pianos 4 Hands	"A two piano elegy on Abraham Lincoln's presidential yacht" — EB		American Music Edition 1962
Sassafras	1 Piano 4 Hands	"Seven pieces, four hands Americana" — EB Garry Owen Jockie and Jinnie Joshua Ebenezer Fry Blue of Heaven, The The Devil's Kitchen Sassafras Wake Up		Lawson-Gould / G. Schirmer 1960
The Scribner Music Library Volume 1 for Beginners	Solo and Duet	Seven teaching pieces as part of collection The New Laid Snow The White Church Asleep In The Hay Prelude A Paper Of Pins A Ground The Muffin Man		Charles Scribner's Sons 1964
Seldom Seen Hollow	Solo	Teaching piece		Theodore Presser 1963 get score

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You can get Camp Meeting, Melodious Sonnet, and Patriotic American Melodies in PDF format for your personal use only with a donation to
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Camp Meeting is 2 pages
Melodious Sonnet is 2 pages
Patriotic American Melodies is 13 pages

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The Lobo Girl of Devil's River

(Dedicated to and edited by
Emily Corbato)

Read the story of the Lobo Girl of Devil's River

You can get The Lobo Girl of Devil's River in PDF format for your personal use only with a donation to
the Ernst Bacon Society of $2 per page.

The Lobo Girl of Devil's River is 15 pages

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A collection of 10 short pieces for solo piano inspired by geographic locations.

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You can get other piano pieces of Ernst Bacon (including manuscripts)
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the Ernst Bacon Society of $2 per page.

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The Coal Scuttle Blues	Piano Duo Rosi & Toni Grunschlag, pianists	amazon.com
The Pigtown Fling	New Music for the Piano Robert Helps, pianist	amazon.com
The Lobo Girl of Devil's River Nuka The Flop-Eared Mule Maple-Sugaring Yemassee River Drip-Drop Rain Habanera The Pigtown Fling	Emily Corbato, pianist	amazon.com