MacDowell had not the Promethean imagination, the magniloquent passion, that are Strauss's; his art is far less elaborate and subtle than that of such typical moderns as Debussy and d'Indy.

But it has an order of beauty that is not theirs, an order of eloquence that is not theirs, a kind of poetry whose secrets they do not know; and there speaks through it and out of it an individuality that is persuasive, lovable, unique.
There is no need to attempt, at this juncture, to speculate concerning his place among the company of the greater dead; it is enough to avow the conviction that he possessed genius of a rare order, that he wrought nobly and valuably for the art of the country which he loved.
LIST OF WORKS COMPOSITIONS OF EDWARD MACDOWELL Op.9.

_Two Old Songs_, for voice and piano (1894)[18]: 1.

Deserted 2.

Slumber Song [18] The publication dates given here are those of the original editions.
Op.10.