This 212-page collection focuses on the varied styles and ethnic influences found in American Piano music over the last two and a quarter centuries. Historical and biographical background, performance notes, and suggestedrealizations of ornaments are provided by Dr. Hinson.

• 12th Street Rag [Bowman, Euday]
• All That Meat And No Potatoes [Waller, Fats] [Kirkeby, Ed]
• Barcarolle Op.28 No.1 [Beach, Amy]
• Battle Of Manassas [Wiggins, Thomas "Blind Tom"]
• Bethena -- A Concert Waltz [Joplin, Scott]
• Blue Moon [Rodgers, Richard] [Hart, Lorenz]
• Blue Rondo A La Turk [Brubeck, Dave]
• Boogie Woogie Etude [Gould, Morton]
• Columbia (Caprice Americaine On "My Old Kentucky Home") [Gottschalk, Louis Moreau]
• Dizzy Fingers [Confrey, Zez]
• Do Nothin' Till You H...