Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Her Life and Music
Title | Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Her Life and Music PDF eBook |
Author | E. Lindsey Merrill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Composers |
ISBN |
Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian
Title | Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Fried Block |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
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.
M Is for Music
Title | M Is for Music PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Krull |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 59 |
Release | 2009-05-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0547541791 |
Music and the alphabet have always gone together. Don't kids learn their letters by singing the ABCs? But you've never seen--or heard--a musical alphabet like this one. Beloved tunes. Unusual instruments. Legendary virtuosos. From anthems to zydeco, the language of music and the music of language harmonize in one superb symphony. It's a funky fusion for songsters of all ages! Includes endnotes.
Music and the Skillful Listener
Title | Music and the Skillful Listener PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Von Glahn |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2013-04-09 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0253006627 |
Explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world
The Elocutionists
Title | The Elocutionists PDF eBook |
Author | Marian Wilson Kimber |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2017-01-19 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 025209915X |
Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.
3 Browning Songs: Ah, love, but a day!
Title | 3 Browning Songs: Ah, love, but a day! PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Beach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Songs (High voice) with piano |
ISBN |
America's Musical Life
Title | America's Musical Life PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Crawford |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 1000 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393048100 |
An illustrated history of America's musical heritage ranges from the earliest examples of Native American traditional song to the innovative sound of contemporary rock and jazz.