morceaux

Updated: June 2, 2025

This "Love Song" is one of the very best of American morceaux, and is altogether commendable. Opus 107 includes three "characteristic pieces." "The Zephyr" is dangerously like Chopin's fifteenth Prelude, with a throbbing organ-point on the same A flat. On this alien foundation, however, Bartlett has built with rich harmony. The "Harlequin" is graceful and cheery.

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