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Amy Beach, passionate Victorian: the life and work of an American composer, 1867-1944

Adrienne Fried Block 1998 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780195074086 (hardcover)
  • 9780195137842 (paper)
  • 9780195360783 (ebook)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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  • Frontmatter
  • 1 A Prodigy's New England Upbringing (page 3)
  • 2 The Cheneys and the Marcys (page 14)
  • 3 A Prodigy Despite Her Mother (page 21)
  • 4 The Making of a Composer: I (page 34)
  • 5 Two Ways of Looking at a Marriage (page 42)
  • 6 The Making of a Composer: II (page 54)
  • 7 Becoming Mistress of Her Craft (page 63)
  • 8 Reaching Out to the World (page 77)
  • 9 "One of the Boys" (page 86)
  • 10 Amy Beach's Boston (page 104)
  • 11 The Composer at the Keyboard: Beach Plays Beach (page 112)
  • 12 "A Veritable Autobiography"?: The Piano Concerto (page 131)
  • 13 The Composer's Workshop (page 146)
  • 14 Choral Music (page 159)
  • 15 The Chambered Nautilus (page 173)
  • 16 Europe and a New Life (page 180)
  • 17 "Lion of the Hour" (page 198)
  • 18 My Old New Hampshire Home (page 213)
  • 19 At the MacDowell Colony: "Solitude in Silence" (page 221)
  • 20 Caring (page 243)
  • 21 A Fascinating New York Life (page 255)
  • 22 Beach the Modernist? (page 264)
  • 23 Reckonings (page 282)
  • 24 Harvest Time (page 291)
  • Postlude: The Legacy (page 296)
  • Appendix: Catalog of Works (page 300)
  • Music's Ten Commandments as Given for Young Composers (page 310)
  • Abbreviations (page 311)
  • Notes (page 313)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 383)
  • Index (page 395)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAMS 54.2 (Summer 2001): 389-395 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jams.2001.54.2.389
NOT 56. 2 (Dec. 1999): 418-420 http://www.jstor.org/stable/900027
MT 141.1872 (Autumn 2000): 61-63 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1004401
NWSA 13.2 (Summer 2001): 161-166 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/v013/13.2borwick.html
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