10. _Aria from Handel's_ "_Susanna_" (_Lavignac_).

11. _Gigue_ (_Graun_).

These pieces were much used by MacDowell in his lessons, as
illustrations of eighteenth century music, and were published in
two books about a dozen years after his death. They have not met
with unanimous approval, for his transcriptions of the old pieces
for the harpsichord and clavichord, in a manner suited to the
modern pianoforte, is considered by many purists to be too free.
The fact is that in their original form they are quite unsuitable
for the modern pianoforte, being far too slight. MacDowell has,
for many of us, done the right thing by filling in their implied
harmonies and otherwise bringing out their qualities, so that
they may be done justice under present-day keyboard conditions.




TWO SONGS FROM THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, FOR MALE CHORUS.

_First Published_, 1897 (Arthur P. Schmidt).

1. _Winter Wraps his Grimmest Spell_.

2. _As the Gloaming Shadows Creep_.

These are two effective male-voice choruses. The first number
being a setting of MacDowell's lines after Nithart, and the