OPUS 19. FOREST IDYLS, FOR PIANOFORTE.

_First Published_, 1884. New Edition, 1912 (C. F. Kahnt
Nachfolger. British Empire--Elkin & Co.).

_Dedicated to Miss Marian Nevins._

1. _Forest Stillness._

2. _Play of the Nymphs._

3. _Rêverie._

4. _Dance of the Dryads._

These pieces are noteworthy as early attempts at significant
expression and the consequent foreshadowing of MacDowell's mature
period. Their suggesting of their particular subjects as
indicated in the titles is fairly well done, but they are of
little importance as music, reflecting as they do the nineteenth
century German romanticism that had already been fully exploited
by Schumann and others. There is little of the individuality of
MacDowell in any of the _Forest Idyls_. The dedication is
interesting, for Miss Marian Nevins became Mrs. MacDowell in the
year of the original publication of the pieces. The revised
edition of _Forest Idyls_ now in circulation in England is by
Robert Teichmüller, and was issued in 1912. MacDowell himself
revised the _Rêverie_ (No. 3) and the _Dance of the Dryads_ (No.