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Amy Beach: Piano Music. (Keyboard).
Amy Beach: Piano Music, selected and with an introduction by Adrienne Fried Block. Dover Publications, Inc., (31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501), 2001. 58 pp., $7.95. Intermediate to moderately difficult.
The eminent Beach scholar Adrienne Fried Block, author of Amy Beach: Passionate Victorian, has selected a fine representative sample of Beach's piano music for this outstanding and very reasonably priced Dover publication. The ten-work collection contains some of Beach's best-known piano works, with representative examples from all stages of her career. Notable among the early works are the Ballad Opus 6 and "Dreaming" Opus 15, No. 3. The Ballad is based on her song, "O my luve is like a red, red rose," on a poem by Robert Burns and is a large-scale, challenging and impassioned work. By contrast, "Dreaming," from her Opus 15 Sketches, is a work reminiscent of Liszt's "Liebestraume" with its lush harmonies and murmuring accompanimental figurations. This collection ...
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...WORLD: THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Block, Adrienne Fried. AMY BEACH, PASSIONATE VICTORIAN: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN AMERICAN COMPOSER, 1867-1944. New York: Oxford University...
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