Download or read book Three Pioneers in American Composition Edward Macdowell John Knowles Paine Horatio Parker written by Mary Cecilia Olle and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MacDowell written by E. Douglas Bomberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-American émigré teachers, he became a formidable pianist and composer, spending twelve years in France and Germany establishing his career. Upon his return to the United States in 1888 he conquered American audiences with his dramatic Second Piano Concerto and won his way into their hearts with his poetic Woodland Sketches. Columbia University tapped him as their first professor of music in 1896, but a scandalous row with powerful university president Nicholas Murray Butler spelled the end of his career. MacDowell died a broken man four years later, but his widow Marian kept his spirit alive through the MacDowell Colony, which she founded in 1907 in their New Hampshire home, and which is today the oldest and one of the most influential, thriving artist colonies in the the United States. Drawing on private letters that were sealed for fifty years after his death, this biography traces MacDowell's compelling life story, with new revelations about his Quaker childhood, his efforts to succeed in the insular German music world, his mysterious death, and his lifelong struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder. Edward MacDowell's story is a timeless tale of human strength and weakness set in one of the most vibrant periods of American musical history, when optimism about the country's artistic future made anything seem possible.
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Download or read book Edward MacDowell A Great American Tone Poet His Life and Music written by John Fielder Porte and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music" John Fielder Porte pays respect to one of the masters of American poetry. MacDowell's ability to elicit a mood from his readers is what brought him to fame and made him a revered master of his craft. Through Porte's hard work, students, poets, and those interested in learning about literature are able to gain some insight into a great man in poetic history.
Download or read book Three Hundred Years at the Keyboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first reference book to include the historical background on most major piano composers, their individual styles, an analysis of their compositions, listings of their major keyboard works, and sample sheet music. (Music)
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Download or read book Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America written by Nicholas E. Tawa and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-09-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronologically following Nicholas Tawa's The Coming of Age of American Art Music, this new study stands on its own in examining the music of the most prominent American composers active in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Among them are Edgar Stillman Kelley, Frederick Shepherd Converse, Daniel Gregory Mason, Edgar Burlingame Hill, Mabel Daniels, Henry Hadley, Deems Taylor, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Henry Gilbert, Arthur Farwell, John Powell, Arthur Shepherd, Scott Joplin, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Marion Bauer, and John Alden Carpenter. Unjustly neglected by a later generation of critics interested in the avant-garde, this music deserves a hearing today and, in fact, increasingly is the subject of new recordings. Professor Tawa puts his exemplary research and analytical skills to work to determine what these composers accomplished, not what latter-day critics felt they should have accomplished. The attitudes, styles, and compositions are analyzed in cultural context. The period of 1900-1930 witnessed an intense debate on what constituted an American identity in music. Was it Anglo-Celtic, Amerindian, African-American, jazz, or the individual unconsciously expressing the American society he or she lived in? The changing world of music, the clash of beliefs and values, and the attempts at a musical reconciliation between old and new approaches to composition figure prominently in the discussion. Tawa concludes that if the present-day listener does not reject romantic music out of hand, he or she will find delight in much of this large body of skillful, meaningful compositions.
Download or read book Contemporary American Composers written by Rupert Hughes and published by Boston : L.C. Page. This book was released on 1900 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music and the Skillful Listener written by Denise Von Glahn and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world
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