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A mostly acoustic, Americana-rooted instrumental journey through the boys’ nineteenth-century Mississippi world: jaunty ragtime and folk-colored orchestral music capture Tom’s schemes, play, and restless imagination, while broader, darker pieces turn toward the island, the cave, and the danger of Injun Joe. The sequence moves from mischievous energy through suspense and hardship toward the warmth of home and the river-town community.
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20 songs
1
Ragtime Dance
Scott Joplin · Scott Joplin – The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works
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Rodeo - Four Dance Episodes: IV. Hoe-Down. Allegro
Aaron Copland · Sommernachtskonzert 2019 / Summer Night Concert 2019
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Mississippi Suite "A Journey in Tones": I. Father of Waters
Ferde Grofé · Grofé: Grand Canyon & Mississippi Suites
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Irish Tune from County Derry
United States Air Force Band · The Lord of the Rings
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The Entertainer
Scott Joplin · American Classics: Scott Joplin
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The Easy Winners
Scott Joplin · Joplin: Piano Rags, Vol. 1
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Appalachian Spring: VII. Doppio movimento
Aaron Copland · Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid & Fanfare for the Common Man
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Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): II. The Old Castle
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
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American Salute
Morton Gould · America, The Beautiful
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The Red Pony: III. Dream March and Circus Music
Aaron Copland · Copland: The Red Pony & Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
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Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 11: II. Allegro vivace
Robert Schumann · Romantic Music - Classical Music from the Romantic Period
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12
The Moldau
Bedřich Smetana · The Symphonies II
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13
Ragtime Nightingale
Joseph Lamb · A Study in Classic Ragtime
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14
The Whistler and His Dog
Arthur Pryor · American Light Music Classics
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Main Title from "The Last of the Mohicans"
Trevor Jones · The Big Picture
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Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: II. Adagio
Edvard Grieg · Grieg: Piano Concerto; Lyric Pieces
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Fording the Stream/Sassy in the River
Bruce Broughton · Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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A River Runs Through It
Mark Isham · A River Runs Through It (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Red Pony: Happy Ending
Aaron Copland · Copland: Music For Films
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