John Knowles Paine: Selected Piano Works

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Catalogue No: NW80424
Label: New World
Length: 98 minutes

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Paine: Christmas Gift, Op. 7

Work length2:19

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Paine: Four Characteristic Pieces, Op. 25

Work length13:52

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Dance

Track length2:34

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Romance

Track length2:26

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Impromptu

Track length5:14

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Rondo Giocoso

Track length3:38

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Paine: Romance, Op. 12

Work length6:50

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Paine: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 41

Work length5:15

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A Spring Idyl

Track length2:19

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Birthday Impromptu

Track length1:02

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Fuga Giocosa

Track length1:54

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Paine: Valse Caprice

Work length4:57

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Paine: Ten Sketches

Work length17:17

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In The Country, Op. 26 - Woodnotes

Track length1:36

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In The Country, Op. 26 - Wayside Flowers

Track length1:54

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In The Country, Op. 26 - Under The Lindens

Track length2:09

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In The Country, Op. 26 - The Shepherd's Lament

Track length1:22

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In The Country, Op. 26 - Village Dance

Track length1:23

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In The Country, Op. 26 - Rainy Day

Track length1:31

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In The Country, Op. 26 - The Mill

Track length1:51

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In The Country, Op. 26 - Gipsies

Track length1:22

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In The Country, Op. 26 - Farewell

Track length2:10

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In The Country, Op. 26 - Welcome Home

Track length1:59

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Paine: Four Character Pieces, Op. 11

Work length11:06

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Frisch

Track length2:39

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Feierlich

Track length3:32

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Etwas Bewegt

Track length2:49

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Willkommen

Track length2:06

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Paine: Funeral March In Memory Of President Lincoln, Op. 9

Work length4:31

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Paine: Romance, Op. 39

Work length3:51

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Paine: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 1

Work length24:50

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Allegro

Track length7:15

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Adagio

Track length7:15

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Scherzo

Track length4:21

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Finale

Track length5:59

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Paine: Nocturne, Op. 45

Work length4:05

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John Knowles Paine was the first American composer to be trained to the highest international standards, which, in his day, meant German standards. He organized the music department at Harvard and became the first American to be named professor of music at an American university.

Paine's output for the piano falls almost entirely within the realm of the romantic character piece, the keyboard miniature, frequently cast in song form (ABA). The titles emphasize Paine’s relationship to the genres favored by the leading keyboard composers of his day: romance, impromptu, nocturne. Works of this type depend not on musical development of an idea, but rather on the immediate attractiveness of the melody and harmonies that make them up. Often they are songs without words, to use Mendelssohn’s phrase, short pieces that capture a single mood. Many of these pieces display his desire to avoid the simple perfect cadence, which he considered to have become a clichÃ¦; he found many different ways to reach his final chord other than an unadorned progression of dominant chord to tonic.

Denver Oldham has performed extensively in Europe, South America and the United States. He is devoted to expanding public appreciation of music by neglected American composers. Oldham has done extensive research on the piano works of John Knowles Paine and has found many unpublished works that are represented on this recording.

John Knowles Paine: Selected Piano Works

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