{"id":2247,"date":"2017-10-23T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2017-10-23T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:01:55","slug":"amy-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/2017\/10\/23\/amy-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Beach was a prominent composer of American music during her lifetime. While I was browsing UCLA&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Sheet Music Consortium<\/em> I was led to some interesting findings. However, much to my disappointment all of the artifacts I found were not accessible online and therefore I felt the need to search outside sources. I browsed the library of congress for Beach&#8217;s works. In it I found a sound text that I was familiar with, but in a different musical context. Because of this I was intrigued by it and decided to take a closer look at it. This artifact is Beach&#8217;s setting of the Shakespearian text\u00a0<em>Take, O Take Those Lips Away<\/em>. This score is the second of three scores from a collection of Shakespearian texts set by Beach. The first and third being\u00a0<em>O, Mistress Mine,<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Fairy Lullaby<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z45JyAQnwVo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" 0=\"allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Beach was not only significant because she was a composer of American music, but that she was the first female composer of American music to gain success and recognition in the art music world. She was a musical prodigy. According to\u00a0<em>Grove Music Online<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;At the age of one she could sing 40 tunes accurately and always in the same key; before the age of two she improvised alto lines against her mother\u2019s soprano melodies; at three she taught herself to read; and at four she mentally composed her first piano pieces and later played them, and could play by ear whatever music she heard, including hymns in four-part harmony.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a vocalist, it&#8217;s hard to believe that these statements aren&#8217;t exaggerated, but it certainly emphasizes the point that Beach was an amazing musician who is definitely worthy of our attention as musical scholars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bibliography<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beach, H. H. A., Mrs, and William Shakespeare.\u00a0<cite>Take, O take those lips away. Op. 37, No. 2<\/cite>. Arhut P. Schmidt, Boston, 1897. Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, &lt;https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/ihas.200215426\/&gt;.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mla-citation\"><span class=\"author\">Adrienne Fried Block<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"author\">E. Douglas Bomberger<\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"article-name\">&#8220;Beach, Amy Marcy.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"source\"><em>Grove Music Online<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<em class=\"site-name\">Oxford Music Online<\/em>.\u00a0<span class=\"site-name-affix\">Oxford University Press<\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"access-type\">Web<\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"date\">23 Oct. 2017.<\/span>&lt;<span class=\"uri\">http:\/\/www.oxfordmusiconline.com\/subscriber\/article\/grove\/music\/A2248268<\/span>&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-2247-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pages.stolaf.edu\\\/americanmusic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/593\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/0001v.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;2248&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;0001v&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pages.stolaf.edu\\\/americanmusic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/593\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/0002v.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;2249&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;0002v&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pages.stolaf.edu\\\/americanmusic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/593\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/0003v.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;2252&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;0003v&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pages.stolaf.edu\\\/americanmusic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/593\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/0004v.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;2251&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;0004v&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pages.stolaf.edu\\\/americanmusic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/593\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/0005v.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;2250&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;0005v&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Beach was a prominent composer of American music during her lifetime. While I was browsing UCLA&#8217;s\u00a0Sheet Music Consortium I was led to some interesting findings. However, much to my disappointment all of the artifacts I found were not accessible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/2017\/10\/23\/amy-beach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jEhR-Af","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}