Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music

by John Fielder Porte

SIX FANCIES, FOR PIANOFORTE.

First Published, 1898 (P.L. Jung). Assigned 1899, to Arthur P. Schmidt.

1. A Tin Soldier's Love.

2 .To a Humming Bird.

3. Summer Song.

4. Across Fields.

5. Bluette.

6. An Elfin Round.

This is a characteristic album, the pieces in it being imaginative and suggestive, in tone poetry, of their subjects, although not of the composer's deepest inspiration.

1.A Tin Soldier's Love (Gently, with Feeling). This little piece opens with a sweet and simple theme, followed by a toy-like march tune, and these make up the material of the piece.