This edition of piano music from 1865-1915 presents seventeen works by fifteen composers, examples of music of a transitional period in the development of American music. The composers include: Faustina Hasse Hodges, Jane Torry Sloman, Clara Scott, Eliza Pattiani, Amy Beach, Clara Kathleen Rogers, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Celeste Heckscher, Clara Gottschalk Peterson, Helen Hopekirk, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, sadie Koninsky, Julia Niebergall, May Aufderheide, and Adeline Shepherd.