Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian : the Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944. by Block, Adrienne Fried

Table of 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"?…”
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Amy Beach, passionate Victorian : the life and work of an American composer, 1867-1944 / by Block, Adrienne Fried

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Source readings in American choral music / by DeVenney, David P., 1958-

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The piano : a history in 100 pieces / by Tomes, Susan

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Music and the skillful listener : American women compose the natural world / by Von Glahn, Denise, 1950-

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Accompanied voices : poets on composers, from Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt /

Table of Contents: “…Hector Berlioz (1803-69) -- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) -- Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49) -- Robert Schumann (1810-56) -- Franz Liszt (1811-86) -- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) -- Richard Wagner (1813-83) -- Anton Bruckner (1824-96) -- Bedrich Smetana (1824-84) -- Johannes Brahms (1833-97) -- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) -- Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-93) -- Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) -- Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) -- Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) -- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) -- Leos Janácek (1854-1928) -- Edward Elgar (1857-1934) -- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) -- Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) -- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) -- Frederick Delius (1862-1934) -- Claude Debussy (1862-1918) -- Richard Strauss (1864-1949) -- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) -- Erik Satie (1866-1925) -- Amy Beach (1867-1944) -- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) -- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) -- Gustav Holst (1874-1934) -- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) -- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) -- Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) -- Béla Bartók (1881-1945) -- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) -- Percy Grainger (1882-1961) -- Arnold Bax (1883-1953) -- Anton Webern (1883-1945) -- Alban Berg (1885-1935) -- George Butterworth (1885-1916) -- Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) -- Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) -- Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) (1894-1930) -- Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)…”
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Music in the USA : a documentary companion /

Table of Contents: “…Amy Fay tackles the "woman question" -- 60. Amy Beach, composer, on "Why I chose my profession" -- 61. …”
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