The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach

The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach
Author: E. Douglas Bomberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108845843

The first book in twenty-five years to survey the life and music of America's pioneering female composer of concert works.

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.

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:

The Baton

The Baton
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1928
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Includes music.

Women & Music

Women & Music
Author: Karin Pendle
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2001-04-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253115035

The second edition of the “milestone” work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages (College Music Symposium). This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.