List of solo piano pieces, American

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Samuel Barber
*Excursions (4), op. 20 (1942–44)
*Piano Sonata, op. 26 (1949)

John Cage
*Three Easy Pieces (1933)
*Quest (1935)
*Two Pieces for Piano (1935, rev. 1974)
*Metamorphosis (1938)
*Bacchanale for prepared piano (1940; frequently misdated 1938)
*Opening Dance for Sue [Laub] (ca. 1940–41)
*And the Earth Shall Bear Again for prepared piano (1942)
*Primitive for prepared piano (1942)
*In the Name of the Holocaust for prepared piano (1942)
*Totem Ancestor for prepared piano (1942)
*Jazz Study (ca. 1942; attributed)
*Ad Lib (1942–43)
*A Room (1943; for piano or prepared piano)
*Our Spring Will Come for prepared piano (1943)
*Tossed As It Is Untroubled for prepared piano (1943; orig. Meditation)
*Triple-Paced No. 1 (1943)
*The Perilous Night for prepared piano (1943–44)
*Four Walls (1944; the ninth of its sixteen parts is for solo voice)
*Prelude for Meditation for prepared piano (1944)
*Root of an Unfocus for prepared piano (1944)
*Spontaneous Earth for prepared piano (1944)
*Triple-Paced No. 2 for prepared piano (1944)
*The Unavailable Memory of for prepared piano (1944)
*A Valentine Out of Season for prepared piano (1944)
*Daughters of the Lonesome Isle for prepared piano (1945)
*Mysterious Adventure for prepared piano (1945)
*Soliloquy (1945; excerpted from Four Walls)
*Crete (ca. 1945)
*Dad (ca. 1945)
*Ophelia (1946)
*Two Pieces for Piano (1946; adapted for inclusion in The Seasons)
*Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946–48)
*Music for Marcel Duchamp for prepared piano (1947)
*The Seasons (1947)
*Dream (1948)
*In a Landscape (1948; for piano or harp solo)
*Our Spring Will Come for prepared piano (1948)
*Suite for Toy Piano (1948)
*Music for Works of Calder for prepared piano (1949–50; the second of its three sequences is for magnetic tape)
*Haiku (1950–51)
*Music of Changes (1951)
*Seven Haiku (1951–52)
*Two Pastorales for prepared piano (1951–52)
*4'33" (1952, 2d ver. ca. 1960; "for any instrument or combination of instruments"—first performed on solo piano)
*For MC and DT (1952)
*Music for Piano No. 1 (1952)
*Waiting (1952)
*Music for Piano No. 2 (1953)
*Music for Piano No. 3 (1953)
*Music for Piano No. 4–19 (1953; for any number of pianos)
*34'46.776" For a Pianist for prepared piano (1954)
*31'57.9864" For a Pianist for prepared piano (1954)
*Music for Piano No. 21–36; 37–52 (1955; for piano solo or ensemble)
*Music for Piano No. 53–68; 69–84 (1956; for piano solo or ensemble)
*Winter Music (1957; for one to twenty pianos)
*TV-Köln (1958; for "piano with or without other instruments or objects")
*Variations I (1958; for "any number of performers; any kind and number of instruments"—first performed on solo piano)
*Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960; for any number of toy pianos)
*Variations II (1961; "for any number of players and any sound producing means"—first performed on solo piano)
*Variations III (1962–63; "for one or any number of people performing any actions"—first performed on solo piano)
*Cheap Imitation (1969; based on Erik Satie's Socrate)
*Etudes Boreales I–IV (1978; for piano and/or cello)
*Perpetual Tango (1984; based on Erik Satie's Sports et divertissements)
*ASLSP (1985; for piano or organ solo)
*One (1987)
*One² (1989; for solo performer on one to four pianos)
*Sports: Swinging (1989; based on Erik Satie's La balançoire from Sports et divertissements)
*One⁵ (1990)
Other original compositions by Cage that may be performed on solo piano
*Party Pieces (Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses) (ca. 1944–45; for "any melody or keyboard instruments"; with Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Virgil Thomson)
*Haiku (1958) (1958; for "any kind of sound production")
*Theatre Piece (1960; "for 1–8 performers")
*0'00" (4'33" No. 2) (1962; "solo to be performed in any way by anyone")
*Variations IV (1963; "for any number of players, any sounds or combinations of sounds produced by any means, with or without other activities")
*Sound Anonymously Received (1969; "for an unsolicited instrument")
*49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (1977; "for performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s)")
*A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity (1978; "for performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s)")
*One⁷ (1990; "for any way of producing sounds"—first performed by John Cage on unidentified instrument)

Henry Cowell
*Anger Dance (1914; orig. Mad Dance)
*Dynamic Motion (1916; frequently misdated 1914)
*The Tides of Manaunaun (1917; frequently misdated 1911 or 1912)
*What's This? (First Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917)
*Amiable Conversation (Second Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917)
*Advertisement (Third Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917)
*Antinomy (Fourth Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917, rev. 1959; frequently misspelled "Antimony")
*Time Table (Fifth Encore to Dynamic Motion) (1917)
*The Trumpet of Angus Og (1918–24)
*Fabric (1920)
*Vestiges (1920)
*The Voice of Lir (1920)
*The Sword of Oblivion for string piano (ca. 1920–22)
*Exultation (1921)
*The Hero Sun (1922)
*Nine Ings (1922)
*Piece for Piano with Strings (1923; for solo string piano, despite possibly confusing title)
*Aeolian Harp for string piano (ca. 1923)
*A Rudhyar (1924)
*The Harp of Life (1924)
*Snows of Fujiyama (1924)
*The Banshee for string piano (1925)
*Slow Jig (1925)
*The Leprechaun (1928)
*Euphoria (1929)
*Fairy Answer (1929)
*Lilt of the Reel (1930)
*Tiger (1930)
*Sinister Resonance for string piano (ca. 1930)
*Deep Color (1938)
*High Color (ca. late 1930s–early 1940s)
*Elegie (for Hanya Holm) (1941)

Charles Ives
*Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60" (1904–15, publ. 1920, rev. 1947)

Conlon Nancarrow
*Studies (50) for Player Piano (late 1940s–early 1980s)

Leo Ornstein
*Wild Men's Dance (aka Danse Sauvage; ca. 1913–14)
*Three Moods (ca. 1914)
*Poems of 1917 (10) (1917)
*A la Chinoise (pre-1918)
*Suicide in an Airplane (ca. 1918–19; frequently misdated 1913)
*Impressions of the Thames (aka Impressions de la Tamise; 1920)
*Arabesques (9) (1921)
*Piano Sonata No. 4 (1924)
*Piano Sonata No. 5, "Biography" (1974)
*Piano Sonata No. 6 (1981)
*Piano Sonata No. 7 (1988)
*Piano Sonata No. 8 (1990)

Dane Rudhyar
*Trois Poëmes (1913)
*Syntony (1919–24, rev. 1967; assembled from four pieces: Dithyramb, Eclogue, Oracle, and Apotheosis)
*Tetragrams (9) (1920–67)
*Pentagrams (4) (1924–26)
*Three Paeans (1925–27)
*Granites (1929)
*Three Cantos (1977)

Carl Ruggles
*Evocations (Four Chants for Piano) (1937–43)