The Resource Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
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The item Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), the most widely performed composer of her generation, was the first American woman to succeed as a creator of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, given its premiere by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first work of its kind by an American woman to be performed by an American orchestra. Almost all of her more than 300 works were published soon after they were composed and performed, and today her music is finding new advocates and audiences for its energy, intensity, and sheer beauty. Yet, until now, no full-length critical biography o
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (448 pages)
- Contents
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- 1 A Prodigy's New England Upbringing; 2 The Cheneys and the Marcys; 3 A Prodigy Despite Her Mother; 4 The Making of a Composer: I; 5 Two Ways of Looking at a Marriage; 6 The Making of a Composer: II; 7 Becoming Mistress of Her Craft; 8 Reaching Out to the World; 9 "One of the Boys"; 10 Amy Beach's Boston; 11 The Composer at the Keyboard: Beach Plays Beach; 12 "A Veritable Autobiography"?: The Piano Concerto; 13 The Composer's Workshop; 14 Choral Music; 15 The Chambered Nautilus; 16 Europe and a New Life; 17 "Lion of the Hour"; 18 My Old New Hampshire Home
- Isbn
- 9781601298713
- Label
- Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
- Title
- Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian
- Title remainder
- the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), the most widely performed composer of her generation, was the first American woman to succeed as a creator of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, given its premiere by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first work of its kind by an American woman to be performed by an American orchestra. Almost all of her more than 300 works were published soon after they were composed and performed, and today her music is finding new advocates and audiences for its energy, intensity, and sheer beauty. Yet, until now, no full-length critical biography o
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Block, Adrienne Fried
- Dewey number
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- 780.92
- 780/.92 B
- 780.92B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
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- ML410.B36 B56 1998eb
- ML410.B36B56 1998
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Beach, Amy
- Composers
- Women composers
- Beach, Amy
- Composers
- Women composers
- United States
- Label
- Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1 A Prodigy's New England Upbringing; 2 The Cheneys and the Marcys; 3 A Prodigy Despite Her Mother; 4 The Making of a Composer: I; 5 Two Ways of Looking at a Marriage; 6 The Making of a Composer: II; 7 Becoming Mistress of Her Craft; 8 Reaching Out to the World; 9 "One of the Boys"; 10 Amy Beach's Boston; 11 The Composer at the Keyboard: Beach Plays Beach; 12 "A Veritable Autobiography"?: The Piano Concerto; 13 The Composer's Workshop; 14 Choral Music; 15 The Chambered Nautilus; 16 Europe and a New Life; 17 "Lion of the Hour"; 18 My Old New Hampshire Home
- Control code
- 475957081
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (448 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781601298713
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)475957081
- Label
- Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1 A Prodigy's New England Upbringing; 2 The Cheneys and the Marcys; 3 A Prodigy Despite Her Mother; 4 The Making of a Composer: I; 5 Two Ways of Looking at a Marriage; 6 The Making of a Composer: II; 7 Becoming Mistress of Her Craft; 8 Reaching Out to the World; 9 "One of the Boys"; 10 Amy Beach's Boston; 11 The Composer at the Keyboard: Beach Plays Beach; 12 "A Veritable Autobiography"?: The Piano Concerto; 13 The Composer's Workshop; 14 Choral Music; 15 The Chambered Nautilus; 16 Europe and a New Life; 17 "Lion of the Hour"; 18 My Old New Hampshire Home
- Control code
- 475957081
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (448 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781601298713
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)475957081
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