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John Knowles Paine, Harvard University and America's first music professor's "Mass in D" was hailed in Europe. Listen to it on New World Records CD #80262 and write a short paper paralleling the similarities of this Mass with Ludwig van Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" (of which Paine's Mass was modeled). |
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Amy Beach's "Gaelic" Symphony is a triumph made even more spectacular since it was composed during a period when women were rarely (if ever) accepted as "composer." Listen to the work on Naxos CD # 8.559139 and write a short paper explaining how this work is "American." For more information regarding Amy Beach read "Amy Beach: The Passionate Victorian, The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944" by Adrienne Fried Block. |
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While noted composer/pianist/educator Edward MacDowell's vision of music as one of the arts integrated into American culture is well known, the bulk of the realization of that vision was left to his wife Marian MacDowell. Marian MacDowell wrote about this effort in her essay "MacDowell's "Peterborough Idea"" found in Musical Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1 (Jan. 1932) pp. 33-38. After you read this brief essay, discuss whether such a "vision" is possible by individuals. For more information regarding the MacDowell Artists Colony please visit http://www.macdowellcolony.org. |
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Horatio Parker's "Hora Novissima" was recorded on Albany CD 124. To what musical aesthetic or composer can you compare it to? Why do you think that that particular musical aesthetic was important for Parker? Is there any indication in the music that Parker was an "academic"? If so, how? |
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