Published and Recorded Piano Works of Ernst Bacon
Currently Available Scores   |   Currently Available Recordings

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
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The Coal Scuttle Blues 2 Pianos
4 Hands
Co-written by Otto Leuning

"Jazz, sophistically corned"
— EB
currently on CD
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Associated Music Publishers
(G. Schirmer) 1944
Drip-Drop Rain Solo
currently on CD
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Flight Solo "A bravura piece"
— EB

Boosey & Hawkes 1949
Flop-Eared Mule Solo
currently on CD
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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
currently on CD
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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
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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
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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 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
currently on CD
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Lawson-Gould /
G. Schirmer 1955
Melodious Sonnet Solo Teaching piece
Theodore Presser 1963
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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
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The Pigtown Fling Solo
currently on CD
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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

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Yemassee River currently on CD
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currently in print:
Blue Cloud Publishing 2004
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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
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The White Church
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Asleep In The Hay
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Prelude
A Paper Of Pins
A Ground
The Muffin Man

Charles Scribner's Sons 1964
Seldom Seen Hollow Solo Teaching piece
Theodore Presser 1963
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Available Scores
Places | The Hootnanny | It's a Kid's World
Seldom Seen Hollow | Camp Meeting | Melodious Sonnet
Patriotic American Melodies
 | The Lobo Girl of Devil's River
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To find the collections The Hootnanny and/or It's a Kid's World:
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  • Contact the publisher:
    Summy-Birchard
    15800 N.W. 48th Avenue
    Miami, FL 33014
    Phone 305-620-1500
    Fax 305-621-1094
    Michael Lefferts, Judi Gowe


Seldom Seen Hollow
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Camp Meeting and Melodious Sonnet

Patriotic American Melodies
You can get Camp Meeting, Melodious Sonnet, and Patriotic American Melodies in PDF format for your personal use only with a donation to
the Ernst Bacon Society of $1 per page.

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)


Lobo Girl of Devil's River

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 $1 per page.

The Lobo Girl of Devil's River is 15 pages

Instructions:
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Places for Piano

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

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Special Requests You can get other piano pieces of Ernst Bacon (including manuscripts)
in PDF format for your personal use only - with a donation to
the Ernst Bacon Society of $1 per page.

Instructions:
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Available Recordings

The Coal Scuttle Blues Piano Duo
Rosi & Toni Grunschlag, pianists

These recordings were originally produced by Composers Recordings Inc. and can be purchased online at
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The Pigtown Fling New Music for the Piano
Robert Helps, pianist

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

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