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)
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