5. Gigue (Mattheson).
6. Sarabande (Loeilly).
BOOK II:
7. Gigue (Loeilly).
8. La Bersan (Couperin).
9. L'Ausonienne (Couperin).
10. Aria from Handel's "Susanna" (Lavignac).
11. Gigue (Graun).
These pieces were much used by MacDowell in his lessons, as illustrations of eighteenth century music, and were published in two books about a dozen years after his death. They have not met with unanimous approval, for his transcriptions of the old pieces for the harpsichord and clavichord, in a manner suited to the modern pianoforte, is considered by many purists to be too free. The fact is that in their original form they are quite unsuitable for the modern pianoforte, being far too slight. MacDowell has, for many of us, done the right thing by filling in their implied harmonies and otherwise bringing out their qualities, so that they may be done justice under present-day keyboard conditions.