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Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, is a suite of ten short piano pieces by the American composer Edward MacDowell. It was written during an 1896 stay at MacDowell's summer retreat in Peterborough, New Hampshire , where each piece was inspired by a different aspect of the surrounding nature and landscape.
"To a Wild Rose", one of the European-trained MacDowell's most well-known and loved pieces, is part of his Woodland Sketches for solo piano, finished in 1896. [1] The composer incorporated certain Native American themes into it. [2] Alan Levy, the critic and biographer, wrote:
Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 [1] – January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period.He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls.
Woodland Sketches is a ballet made by Robert La Fosse to Edward MacDowell's eponymous music from 1896 for New York City Ballet's American Music Festival. The premiere took place on Thursday, May 5, 1988 , at New York State Theater , Lincoln Center .
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The oldest mound associated with the Woodland period was the mortuary mound and pond complex at the Fort Center site in Glade County, Florida. Excavations and dating in 2012 by Thompson and Pluckhahn show that work began around 2600 BCE, seven centuries before the mound-builders in Ohio.
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Gerald Sedgewick Wilkinson, FLS (9 February 1926 – 10 March 1988 [1] [2] [3]) was a British illustrator, art historian, naturalist, photographer, artist and book-designer, known for his books on J. M. W. Turner's sketches and on British trees and woodlands.