Pieces Based on American Folktunes?

[rubinsteinmad]

Hi! Does anyone know if there are any pieces out there based on American folktunes, transcribed/composed for piano by a composer of some significance? (Preferably having a Wikipedia Article)?


Thanks!

(What I've found so far are:
Samuel Barber: Excursions
Enjott Schneider: Mozart in New Orleans [Variations on "House of the Rising Sun"])
Ives/Liebermann: Variations on "America" [English melody popular in America as a patriotic song]
Meachem: American Patrol
Dvorak: American Suite (Not really American folktunes, but it is dubbed "American", so....)
Dvorak-Juon: New World Symphony (Same as above)
British tune-Godowsky: Star Spangled Banner( English song popular as American national anthem)
Sousa-Horowitz: Stars & Stripes Forever
Rubinstein: Yankee Doodle Variations
British folktune- Josef Hoffman: Star Spangled Banner
Foster-Warren: Camptown Races;
Foster-Grainger: Lullaby from Tribute to Foster
Gottschalk: The Battle Cry of Freedom Fantasy; Concert Paraphrase on "Union"; Columbia fantasy;
Pasquinade; The Banjo; The Last Hope;
Finney: Campfire on Ice;
Gershwin: Swanee
)
Richard Hoffman: Dixie Paraphrase
)

[visitor]

I actually hve a sub collection of these. Don't have them catalogued though so unless I can go Intoa deep and dark spot in my archive chest cannot list a bunch right now
However your omission of David Guion is glaring ( he studied w Leo Godowsky)He's the best "American cowboy" composer we had!

I bought this score sometime last year love it.  Difficult as heck to read through by doable with enough hours
Turkey in the straw

Not sure how having a wiki qual I disquals being significant  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Guion

Bonus
Sheep and goat ( walking to the pasture)

[visitor]

You mentioned the third in warren's set Of foster transcriptions ( I have the scores ad audio If the lot in collection  ) In addition to Jeanie with the light brown hair
Here's one of the others
Beautiful dreamer

[rubinsteinmad]

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However your omission of David Guion is glaring ( he studied w Leo Godowsky)He's the best "American cowboy" composer we had!

I bought this score sometime last year love it.  Difficult as heck to read through by doable with enough hours
Turkey in the straw

YOU ARE AWESOME! THANK YOU! Not only are those pieces folksongs/popular songs, they are FIDDLE TUNES AND BALLADS(which is the main reason I started this topic, anyways- even though I didn't mention it ) !

[thalbergmad]

https://imslp.org/wiki/Grande_Fantaisie_sur_les_Airs_Nationaux_Américains_Hail_Columbia_%26_Yankee_Doodle,_Op.52_(Meyer,_Leopold_de)

A contribution by Leopold de Meyer, the first of the big European stars to visit America.

Thal