The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach
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- Editor: E. Douglas Bomberger, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania
- Date Published: October 2023
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- isbn: 9781108998086
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Amy Beach was a pathbreaking composer and pianist who transcended the restrictions of nineteenth-century Boston to become America's most famous turn-of-the-century female composer and, later in her career, a prominent performing artist and promoter of music education. The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach makes her life and music accessible to a new generation of listeners. It outlines her remarkable talent as a child prodigy, her marriage to a prominent physician twice her age, and her subsequent international acclaim as a composer and piano virtuoso. Analytical chapters examine the range of her musical output, from popular songs and piano pieces to chamber and symphonic works of great complexity. As well as introducing Beach's compelling music to those not yet familiar with her work, it provides new resources for scholars and students with in-depth information drawn from recently uncovered archival sources.
Read more- An up-to-date guide to the life and works of America's first major female composer of concert works to win international acclaim
- Draws on recently uncovered archival sources to expand our knowledge of a woman whose talent and perseverance challenged contemporary stereotypes
- Includes analysis of Beach's compositions in different genres, as well as contextual discussion of her life, professional relationships and reception history informed by recent theory
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- Date Published: October 2023
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108998086
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Part I. Historical Context:
1. Between composer's desk and piano bench: Amy beach's life and works E. Douglas Bomberger
2. Amy beach and the women's club movement Marian Wilson Kimber
3. 'A reality of glorious attainment': Amy beach's Macdowell colony Robin Rausch
4. Amy beach and her publishers Bill F. Faucett
Part II. Profiles of the Music:
5. Amy beach's keyboard music Kirsten Johnson
6. Songs of Amy beach Katherine Kelton
7. 'Worthy of serious attention': the chamber music of Amy beach R. Larry Todd
8. The power of song in beach's orchestral works Douglas W. Shadle
9. Choral music Matthew Phelps
10. Beach's dramatic works Nicole Powlison
Part III. Reception:
11. Phoenix redivivus: Beach's posthumous reception E. Douglas Bomberger.
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