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    BENJAMIN CARR (1768-1831)


    KEYBOARD WORKS:

    Note: For any of the modern scores below published by A-R Editions: 

    A-R Editions is willing to offer a discount on the purchase of scores/parts and to reduce the rental fees on orchestral parts for ensembles interested in using one of their publications for a FAMI-related project. For further information, contact James Zychowicz, permissions manager at A-R Editions (james.zychowicz@areditions.com).

    For recordings of all of the items below (except for the Voluntary for organ), and for many additional piano compositions by Carr, see Benjamin Carr. Piano Music, Centaur Records, Kirsten Johnson, piano: here. 

    Federal Overture (1794) , pf score (1794; facs. 1957)

                Score: Philadelphia: Benjamin Carr, n.d.[1794, IMSLP
                Recording:     See above                    

    Six  sonatas (1796)  1 R in RRAM, i, 1977)

                Score: Anthology of Early American Keyboard Music, vol. 1, Bunker Clark, ed (Middleton,              WI: A-R Editions, 1977. Sonatas 3, 6
                 Sonata #6 is also available individually from A-R Editions for $4.95
                 IMSLP:  None found
                Recording: See above for all six sonatas.

    Dead March and Monody for General Washington, pf and vs (Baltimore, 1799/1800)

                Score: Philadelphia : Carr and Schetky, 1800
                            IMSLP: None located
                Recording: See above

    Rondo in G Major (ca 1800)

                Score: Philadelphia: Musical Journal, n.d.(ca.1800), No.60: Instrumental Section (pp.13-14), IMSLP 
                Recording: None known.

    Voluntary, organ  (1801) 

                Score: Anthology of Early American Keyboard Music, vol. 1, Bunker Clark, ed (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 1977. 
                 This work is also available individually from A-R Editions for $4.95
                  IMSLP: None located
                Recording: Buchholz

    Rondo in E-flat Major (1801/1802)

                Score: Philadelphia: Carr & Schetky (1801 or 1802), IMSLP
                Recording:     See above

    The Siege of Tripoli: Historical Naval Sonata, op.4 (1804)

                Score: Anthology of Early American Keyboard Music, vol. 1, Bunker Clark, ed (Middleton,              WI: A-R Editions, 1977. 
                  Also available individually from A-R Editions for $4.95. 
                  IMSLP:  None found
                Recording:   See above

    Fantasia on the Air Gramachree (1830)

                Score: Philadelphia, unidentified publisher (1830s?)
                 Modern score: Nineteenth-Century American Piano Music, John Gillespie, ed. 
                 (NY: Dover Publications, 1978), IMSLP
                Recording:  See above

    The Maid of Lodi with Variations

                Score: Anthology of Early American Keyboard Music, vol. 1, Bunker Clark, ed (Middleton,  WI: A-R Editions, 1977. 

                 Also available individually from A-R Editions for $4.95
                  IMSLP:  None located
                Recording: See above

                

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