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Amy Beach (1867-1944) Biography. Biography. Amy Marcy Cheney was born on September 5, 1867 in Henniker, New Hampshire, to a prominent New England family. Her mother, Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney, was a talented amateur singer and pianist. Young Amy was a true prodigy who memorized forty songs at the age of one and taught herself to read at age three. She played four-part hymns and composed simple...

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Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Biography. Arthur Foote was born in 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts, and grew up in Boston. After beginning his music education at age twelve, he studied harmony at the New England Conservatory before entering Harvard College in 1870. There he studied counterpoint and fugue with John Knowles Paine. He also led the Harvard Glee Club (1872-74), where he gained practical experience in working with voices....

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"Bethlehem, op. 24" by Amy Beach Article. Article. Amy Beach's "Christmas Hymn," Bethlehem, op. 24, was heard on December 24, 1893, at Boston's First Church Unitarian. Arthur Foote was the organist. He was also one of the composers included in a group called the Boston Six whose other members were Amy Beach, George Chadwick, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.

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"Far awa'" by Mrs. H.H.A. (Amy) Beach Article. Article. From Five Burns Songs, op. 43

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How to Find Choral Music in the Performing Arts Reading Room The Library's Music Division currently holds 20 million items that it serves through the Performing Arts Reading Room. This number includes over 100,000 choral works, an aggregate of copyright registration deposits, and acquisitions and gifts from European and American publishing houses. Throughout the years, choral music has been registered, selected and processed through a variety of methods and locating choral music items can be...

Date: 1865

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"The Lonely Rose, op. 43" by Margaret Ruthven Lang Article. In 1906, Lang wrote The Lonely Rose, op. 43, for Boston's Thursday Morning Musical Club, the women's organization that had commissioned Amy Beach's cantata The Sea-Fairies, op. 59, two years earlier. It is a lengthy setting for women's voices and piano with a wide-ranging soprano solo.

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"Peace on Earth, op. 38, (1897)" by Amy Beach Article. Peace on Earth, op. 38, (1897), Beach subtitled "Christmas Anthem." It is an ambitious piece that sets to music verses one, four, and five of the E. H. Sears text, "It Came upon the Midnight Clear." For the fifth verse, Beach uses a variant published by Edward Bickersteth in his 1879 Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer. The anthem exemplifies her...

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Related Resources Web Resources American Choral Directors Association - http://www.acda.org/ External Select Print Bibliography Block, Adrienne Fried. Amy Beach: Passionate Victorian. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Block, Adrienne Fried.

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"Through the House Give Glimmering Light, op. 39, no. 3" by Amy Beach Article. Article. from Three Shakespeare Songs, op. 39

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