Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music

Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music
Author: Jeanell Wise Brown
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810828841

Follows the life of Amy Beach, a prominent composer and concert pianist. Each score and manuscript is reviewed theoretically and historically.

Catalogs

Catalogs
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1919
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian
Author: Adrienne Fried Block
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2000
Genre: Composers
ISBN: 0195137841

This biography admirably fills that gap, fully examining the connections between Beach's life and work in light of social currents and dominant ideologies. Adrienne Fried Block has written a biography that takes full account of issues of gender and musical modernism, considering Beach in the contexts of her time and of her composer contemporaries, both male and female. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian will be of great interest to students and scholars of American music, and to music lovers in general.

A Composer's Insight: Richard Rodney Bennett

A Composer's Insight: Richard Rodney Bennett
Author: Timothy Salzman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781574630480

This is a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their works for wind band. Included in this initial volume are rare, behind-the-notes perspectives acquired from personal interviews with each composer. An excellent resource for conductors, composers or enthusiasts interested in acquiring a richer musical understanding of the composers' training, compositional approach, musical influences and interpretative ideas. Features the music of: Timothy Broege, Michael Colgrass, Michael Daugherty, David Gillingham, John Harbison, Karel Husa, Alfred Reed and others.

Guide to the Tuba Repertoire, Second Edition

Guide to the Tuba Repertoire, Second Edition
Author: R. Winston Morris
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2006-11-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253112257

Guide to the Tuba Repertoire is the most comprehensive investigation ever undertaken into the literature and discography of any single musical instrument. Under the direction of R. Winston Morris and Daniel Perantoni, this publication represents more than 40 years of research by dozens of leading professionals throughout the world. The guide defines the current status of the tuba and documents its growth since its inception in 1835. Contributors are Ron Davis, Jeffrey Funderburk, David Graves, Skip Gray, Charles A. McAdams, R. Winston Morris, Mark A. Nelson, Timothy J. Northcut, Daniel Perantoni, Philip Sinder, Joseph Skillen, Kenyon Wilson, and Jerry A. Young.