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	Amy Beach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into a family of important political, military, and business figures.
		Amy Beach: Concerto for Piano in C sharp minor with pianist Alan Feinberg and the Symphony in E minor ("Gaelic").
		Amy Beach: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A minor; Quartet for Strings; Pastorale for Wind Quintet; and Sketches (4) for Piano, Dreaming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amy_Beach (533 words)

	Amy Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		H.H.A. Beach) (1867-1944) was born in New Hampshire.
		Beach compsed works in many genres, including a Mass, a symphony, a piano concerto, and works for chamber ensembles, piano, mixed chorus, and solo voice.
		Beach's Three Shakespeare Songs, Op.44, all use verses in which fairies' beguiling and alarming magic makes nonsense of the human lovers' nuptial arrangements and the artisans' clumsy plans to put on a play, moving the action to the enchanted wood outside Athens and introducing Puck.
	www.ibiblio.org /cheryb/women/abeach.html (344 words)

	Amy Beach and the American Symphonic Movement
		Amy Beach and the birth of "Gaelic" Symphony
		Amy Beach, the youngest of the group, noted that, over the centuries, vernacular music had reinvigorated art music, and agreed with Dvorák about the need for a distinctive American music based on ethnic and traditional idioms.
		Amy Beach, who believed that the older the tunes, the more authentic, found her source for the symphony in a collection published in 1841 by a folk-song collector in Dublin.
	www.americancomposers.org /beach_article.htm (1220 words)

	Amy Beach. Passionate Victorian
		Amy's maternal aunt, Emma Francis (Marcy) Clement, age twenty-five, who married six months before Amy was born, was a frequent visitor with her husband, Lyman Hinkley Clement, age twenty-seven, probably remaining for an extended period.
		Amy's mother was a talented pianist and singer, and her grandmother Marcy was a high soprano who sang in the church choir as well as at home.
		Beach later commented that "the piano was still, theoretically, in the top bureau drawer." At the same time, her mother began her daughter's general education, tutoring her at home rather than sending her to a school.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/block-beach.html (4525 words)

	Amy Cheney Beach Collection Finding Aid
		Amy Marcy Cheney, an American composer and pianist, was born 5 September 1867, in Henniker, NH, to Charles Abbott Cheney and Clara Imogene Marcy Cheney.
		Beach's creative output from the age of four (1872) to the age of sixty-six (1933), and includes many of her songs which remain unpublished.
		Beach had with the MacDowell Colony, and the donation of many of her manuscripts and personal ephemera which are stored there as requested in her will, the weakness of this collection is that many of her major works are not included, specifically her E-Minor Symphony and her Violin Sonata.
	www.umkc.edu /lib/spec-col/amy-b-findaid.htm (1598 words)

	NPRN Composer of the Month - Women Composers
		Amy Beach was the leading woman composer of the late 19th and early twentieth century.
		Born Amy Cheney in New Hampshire in 1867, she soon displayed musical precocity: at the age of one she knew 40 tunes accurately, and soon learned to improvise alto parts against her mother's soprano.
		Amy married Henry when she was 18, at which point she deferred to his wishes that she not perform extensively in public.
	net.unl.edu /musicFeat/composer/cmwamybeach.html (488 words)

	Amy Grabow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amy Grabow (born December 18, in Huntington Beach, California) is an American actress.
		Amy spends her free time hanging out with friends and family.
		Amy is also very athletic and enjoys: scuba diving, sailing, horseback riding, and pilates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amy_Grabow (239 words)

	Women of Music History, Part V - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
		The musical background of Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) reads like that of many well-known male composers: Her talent was recognized at a very early age, she began writing music at age four, and gave her first public performances at age seven.
		As a matter of fact, Amy Beach holds the distinction of being credited as the first American woman to write a major symphonic work (Gaelic Symphony in E Minor, Opus 32), which was premiered in 1896 by the Boston Symphony.
		Amy Beach died of heart failure on December 27, 1944 at the age of 77.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/music_history_retired/27465 (530 words)

	Amy Beach: Introduction to The Sea-Fairies, Op. 59 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Even though Beach focused on composition while she was married - at that time playing and teaching the piano for money did not befit the social status of the wife of a man such as Dr. Beach - she occasionally appeared as a concert pianist at charitable events.
		Beach sets the text from the perspective of the mariners in slow 4/4 time, whereas the sirens song she sets in swift 3/4 or 6/8 meters.
		Beach's harmonic idiom is reminiscent of Elgar and Brahms, the latter of whom she claims as a primary influence.
	home.earthlink.net /~akuster/music/beach/seafairies.htm (6143 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Her Symphony in E (the "Gaelic") demonstrates this, and is one of the first works by an American to answer Antonin Dvorák's challenge to use national themes in their compositions.
		Beach believed that since a large percentage of Boston's citizens were of Irish extraction, this would be the most representative source to draw upon.
		Many of her works have remained popular in this century, and her music is receiving a fairer re-evaluation as a result of the general interest in the music of women and the special circumstances of its creation.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/beach.html (637 words)

	Amy Beach: The First Great Woman Composer of America - Creative Keyboard, September, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amy Beach was born on September 5, 1867 in Henniker, New Hampshire.
		Amy was a child prodigy who composed her first song when she was only four years old.
		To Amy, the key of G was red, E flat was pink, A flat was blue, the color green was the key of A and E Major was yellow.
	www.creativekeyboard.com /sept00/amybeach.html (514 words)

	Amy Cheney Beach -- UMKC Miller Nichols Library: Special Collections Collection
		Amy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) was America's foremost composer of the Romantic period and a virtuoso concert pianist.
		Amy Beach was best known for her songs, and two Browning settings, Ah, Love, but a Day and The Year's at the Spring, which achieved considerable popularity during her lifetime.
		Other UMKC Library resources pertaining to the life and compositions of Amy Beach can be found through a subject search (Beach H H A Mrs.) of the Merlin Library catalog.
	www.umkc.edu /lib/spec-col/amy-b.htm (434 words)

	Amy BEACH - Piano Concerto [KS]: Classical CD Reviews- June 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amy Beach holds the distinction of being the first American woman to gain international fame as a composer of large-scale works of music.
		Beach’s Gaelic symphony is somewhat of a rebuttal to Dvořák’s embracing of Native American and African American folk tunes as primary thematic material for new American symphonic works.
		Beach contended that a composer should write from his or her own personal heritage, and thus, she chose tunes from her ancestral British Isles.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Aug03/Amy_BEACH_sutton.htm (839 words)

	Amy Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amy Cheney was born in Henniker, N.H. A precocious musical talent, she composed music at age four and at seven was performing publicly.
		In 1885, Amy Cheney married Dr. H.H.A. Beach, a well-known Boston surgeon.
		Beach shifted her emphasis from performance to composition, although she continued to perform her own work.
	www.nhptv.org /kn/itv/mcd/beach.htm (91 words)

	University of New Hampshire Library - Milne Special Collections and Archives - Mrs. H.H.A. Beach/Amy Beach (MC 51)
		Beach and, at the request of her husband, she shifted emphasis from performance to composition.
		Amy Beach with Ruth Shaffner, an unknown woman, and Mabel Pierce at Centerville, MA (?) Photographer unknown.
		Amy Beach and Nancy Byrd Turner in front of The Eaves at MacDowell Colony.
	www.izaak.unh.edu /specoll/mancoll/beach.htm (4049 words)

	Amy Beach Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From
		Amy Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney, in West Henniker, New Hampshire...
		Amy Marcy Beach was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, on September 5, 1867.
		Amy was a child prodigy who composed her first song at the age of four.
	www.lyricsfrom.com /artists/a/Amy-Beach.html (1673 words)

	Amy Marcy Beach-del sol featured composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		H.H. Beach, as she styled herself after her marriage to a prominent physician in 1885, became the first woman composer to achieve wide recognition in America.
		After marriage to Dr. Beach, however, she curtailed her concertizing in favor of homemaking.
		Beach resumed her concertizing in America and Germany and increased her compositional output.
	www.delsolquartet.com /composer/amy_beach.html (214 words)

	Amy Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amy Beach was the first major woman composer from the United States.
		When the family moved to Boston she had the opportunity of studying with excellent local teachers of piano and harmony, and in 1883 made her local debut as soloist in a piano concerto.
		In the 25 years of her marriage until her husband's death in 1910, Beach tried to limit her public appearances to an annual piano recital and the premieres of her own works.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/masterworks/medialib/composers/beach_profile.html (252 words)

	Amy Beach, Piano Concerto Piano Quintet.
		Beach — as she was known in her day, the turn of the 19th century — is undergoing a deserved revival.
		Joanne Polk’s ongoing survey of the piano music of Beach should cement a reputation as a composer of taut and lyrical music, especially in smaller formats.
		The Concerto, premiered with the composer at the keyboard in 1900, finds Beach somewhat adrift, with wistful and artful material that does not fill out the big concerto framework.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/062900/mus.dq6.shtml (170 words)

	eBooks.com - Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian eBook
		Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), the most widely performed composer of her generation, was the first American woman to succeed as a creator of large-scale art music.
		Although Beach believed that the life of a professional musician was the only life for her, her parents had raised her for marriage and a career of amateur music-making.
		Beach's reaction to this was to join with other women composers of serious music by promoting their works along with her own.
	usa2.ebooks.com /ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=241528 (648 words)

	Beach, Amy (1867-1944) Classical Compositions and Amy Beach (1867-1944) classical music sheets. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amy Beach was the first American woman to succeed as a composer of large-scale musical works.
		Amy Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney, in West Henniker, New Hampshire, during an era when the world of work was divided into two spheres, the private and domestic for women, the public for men.
		During 25 years of marriage, Amy Beach composed not only the symphony and the concerto but also songs, chamber, choral and solo piano music.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/4516.htm (464 words)

	Beach: ``Gaelic'' Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beginning piano studies at six, Amy developed her abilities rapidly, and made her public debut at 16, performing music by Moscheles and Chopin (accompanied by an unnamed ``grand orchestra,'' according to the program).
		Indeed, Dr. Beach encouraged his wife's talents, to the extent of having a superb studio built in their home for her use in practicing and composing.
		Beach immediately began work on a large-scale Mass in E flat, which was followed a few years later by the present work.
	fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /geoff/prognotes/beach/gaelic.html (541 words)

	Amy Marcy Beach - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amy Marcy Cheney began composing simple waltzes when she was 4.
		Basically self-taught, Amy Beach learned counter-point by writing out fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier from memory, then comparing her version to Bach's.
		Her major works include a Mass in E-flat, premiered by the Handel and Haydn Society, the Gaelic Symphony, first American symphony to become part of the repertoire of major European orchestras, a Piano Concerto in C# minor, and the opera Cabildo.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/beach (1006 words)

	Oxford University Press: Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: Adrienne Fried Block (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) was the most widely performed composer of her generation and the first American woman to succeed as a composer of large-scale art music.
		This biography examines the connections between Beach's life and her work in the context of social currents and dominant ideologies.
		Beach, however, was determined to set herself apart from the genteel parlor music that most women were composing at the time.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/BiographyLettersMemoirs/~~/?view=usa&ci=0195074084 (744 words)

	Amy BEACH - Gaelic Symphony [NH]: Classical CD Reviews- May 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Another exemplary disc in the Naxos American Classics series brings together the two works which are arguably Amy Beach's finest achievements, at least in a large scale format.
		Beach argued, and here put into practice, that it was equally acceptable and appropriate to use the musical material of Americans' ancestral countries, in this case Ireland, to invigorate and, I suppose, validate the new "tradition".
		Like Rebecca Clarke, who has also recently undergone a critical and recording renaissance, Beach is a landmark female composer who deserves the widest possible hearing for her accessible and beautifully crafted music.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Jun03/amybeachnaxos.htm (593 words)

	ISAM Newsletter: Amy Beach: Passionate Victorian
		Adrienne Fried Block’s Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 (Oxford University Press, 1998; $45) is a valuable contribution to music scholarship and an outstanding tribute to the dean of America’s female composers, Amy Beach.
		Here Block chooses to present Beach as an experimenter, attempting to dispel the general perception of her as an old-fashioned composer and to give her work relevance in the new century.
		Ultimately, the story of Beach’s life—as well as her subsequent obscurity and the recent revival of her music—is most informed by gender issues and the changing cultural landscape.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /isam/blunsom.html (1016 words)

	Amy Beach: Piano Music. . - Keyboard - book review American Music Teacher - Find Articles
		Amy Beach: Piano Music, selected and with an introduction by Adrienne Fried Block.
		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.
		This collection shows Beach at her best, as an accessible, pianistic composer with a rich, romantic harmonic palette, and this volume is a must for all piano students and teachers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2493/is_3_51/ai_82772111 (367 words)

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