The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach

E. Douglas Bomberger (Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania)

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English

Cambridge University Press
02 November 2023

Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

Series: Cambridge Companions to Music

Amy Beach was a pathbreaking composer and pianist who transcended the restrictions of nineteenth-century Boston to become America's most famous turn-of-the-century female composer and, later in her career, a prominent performing artist and promoter of music education. The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach makes her life and music accessible to a new generation of listeners. It outlines her remarkable talent as a child prodigy, her marriage to a prominent physician twice her age, and her subsequent international acclaim as a composer and piano virtuoso. Analytical chapters examine the range of her musical output, from popular songs and piano pieces to chamber and symphonic works of great complexity. As well as introducing Beach's compelling music to those not yet familiar with her work, it provides new resources for scholars and students with in-depth information drawn from recently uncovered archival sources.

Edited by: E. Douglas Bomberger (Elizabethtown College Pennsylvania)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 705g
ISBN: 9781108845847
ISBN 10: 1108845843
Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I. Historical Context: 1. Between composer's desk and piano bench: Amy beach's life and works E. Douglas Bomberger; 2. Amy beach and the women's club movement Marian Wilson Kimber; 3. 'A reality of glorious attainment': Amy beach's Macdowell colony Robin Rausch; 4. Amy beach and her publishers Bill F. Faucett; Part II. Profiles of the Music: 5. Amy beach's keyboard music Kirsten Johnson; 6. Songs of Amy beach Katherine Kelton; 7. 'Worthy of serious attention': the chamber music of Amy beach R. Larry Todd; 8. The power of song in beach's orchestral works Douglas W. Shadle; 9. Choral music Matthew Phelps; 10. Beach's dramatic works Nicole Powlison; Part III. Reception: 11. Phoenix redivivus: Beach's posthumous reception E. Douglas Bomberger.

E. Douglas Bomberger teaches musicology and piano at Elizabethtown College. He has published six books and numerous articles on music in the United States, and he served as subject editor for nineteenth-century music for the Grove Dictionary of American Music (2013).

Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach

'This well-researched and tastefully produced book is a welcome addition to the ever-growing literature on Amy Beach, one of the most important American composers of the early twentieth century ... There can no longer be any doubt that Beach is a composer with whom serious musicians and listeners ought to be more than vaguely familiar. Anyone who thinks otherwise is invited to read this volume and see if their scepticism survives.' Eric McElroy, Musical Opinion