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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, American Supplement, 1928
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1(1862). Not until the 9th edition, 1698, was music added and then only 12-14 tunes. See TUNE-BOOKS and numerous books upon the history of hymnody. Elson, Hist. of American Music, pp. 6-7, gives three pages in facsimile, and Fisher, Old Music in Boston, p. 4, reproduces two tunes.
3BEACH, AMY MARCY, née Cheney (Sept. 5, 1867, Henniker, N. H.). See article in Vol. i. 210. She has been an active concert-pianist since 1885, appearing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras, as well as with the Kneisel Quartet and similar organizations. In 1888, playing with the Boston Orchestra, she added an original cadenza to Beethoven's C minor Concerto. Her first compositions were a group of songs in 1884. Her first work in large form was the Mass in E-flat, given by the Handel and Haydn Society in 1892. Her Scena and Aria from Schiller's 'Maria Stuart' was first sung by Mrs. Alvès with the New York Symphony Society in 1892. In 1893 she was asked to provide a Festival Jubilate for the opening of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago; in 1898 also a 'Song of Welcome' for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha; and in 1915 a 'Panama Hymn' for the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. Her 'Gaelic' Symphony was first given from manuscript by the Boston Orchestra in 1896, and has become frequent on the programs of other orchestras. Her Concerto in C-sharp minor she brought out in 1900 with the Boston Orchestra, and she has since played it often both in America and abroad. After the death of her husband in 1910 she spent four years in Europe, where she was heard in many cities, notably Rome, Munich, Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin. Her 'Gaelic' Symphony was performed in Hamburg and Leipzig, and her piano-quintet and violin-sonata also won recognition. In recent years her songs, church-music and piano-works have received favorable attention. The full list of her works is as follows:
5Piano —
6op. 3 Cadenza for Beethoven's C minor Concerto.
74 Valse-Caprice.
86 Ballade in D-flat.
915 Four Sketches — 'In Autumn,' 'Phantoms,' 'Dreaming,' 'Fireflies.'
1022 Bal Masque; Waltz.
1125 Children's Carnival — 'Promenade,' 'Columbine,' 'Pantalon,' 'Pierrot and Pierrette,' 'Secrets,' 'Harlequin.'
1228 'Barcarolle,' 'Menuet Italien,' 'Danse des Fleurs.'
1336 Children's Album — Minuet, Gavotte, Waltz, March, Polka.
14— Transcription of Richard Strauss' 'Serenade.'
1554 'Scottish Legend,' 'Gavotte Fantastique.'
1660 Variations on Balkan Themes.
17op. 64 Eskimo Pieces—'Arctic Night,' 'Returning Winter,' 'Exiles,' 'With Dog-Teams.'
1865 Suite Française, 'Les Rêves de Columbine' — 'La Fée de la Fontaine,' 'Le Prince Gracieux,' 'Valse Amoureuse,' 'Sous les Étoiles,' 'Danse d'Arlequin.'
1981 Prelude and Fugue.
2047 Six Duets, 'Summer Dreams.'
2145 Concerto in C-sharp minor, with orchestra.
2267 Quintet in F-sharp minor, with string-quartet.
24Violin —
25op. 23 Romance.
2634 Sonata in A minor.
2740 'La Captive' (G-string), 'Berceuse,' 'Mazurka.'
2855 Invocation.
30Orchestra —
31op. 23 'Gaelic' Symphony in E minor.
33Songs —
34op. 1 'With Violets,' 'The Four Brothers,' 'Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur,' 'Ariette.'
352 'Twilight,' 'When Far from Her,' 'Empress of Night.'
3611 'Dark is the Night,' 'The Western Wind,' 'The Blackbird.'
3712 'Wilt thou be my dearie?' 'Ye banks and braes of bonnie Doon,' 'My luv is like a red, red rose.'
3813 'A Hymn of Trust.'
3914 'The Summer Wind,' 'The Secret,' 'Sweetheart, sigh no more,' 'The Thrush.'
4018 Scena and Aria, 'Wandering Clouds,' from Schiller's 'Maria Stuart.'
4119 'For me the jasmine-buds unfold,' 'Ecstasy,' 'Golden Gates.'
4220 Villanelle, 'Across the World.'
4321 'Chanson d'Amour,' 'Exstase,' 'Elle et Moi.'
4426 'My Star,' 'Just for This,' 'Spring,' 'Wouldn't that be queer?'
4529 'Within my Heart,' 'The Wandering Knight,' 'Sleep, Little Darling,' 'Haste, O Beloved.'
4635 'Night,' 'Alone,' 'With Thee,' 'Forget-me-not.'
4737 Shakespeare Songs — 'O Mistress Mine,' 'Take, O take those lips away,' 'Fairy Lullaby.'
4841 'Anita,' 'Thy Beauty,' 'Forgotten.'
4943 Burns Songs — 'Dearie,' 'Scottish Cradle-Song,' 'O were my love yon lilac fair,' 'Far Awa,' 'My Lassie.'
5044 Browning Songs — 'The year's at the spring,' 'Ah, love, but a day,' 'I send my heart up to thee.'
5148 'Come, ah, come,' 'Good-Morning,' 'Good-Night,' 'Canzonetta.'
5251 'Silent Love,' 'We Three,' 'June,' 'For my Love.'
5353 Aria, 'Jephtha's Daughter.'
5456 'Autumn-Song,' 'Go not too far,' 'I know not how to find the spring,' 'Shena Van.'
5562 'When soul is joined to soul.'
5668 'After.'
5769 Mother-Songs — 'Baby,' 'Hush, baby dear.'
5871 'A Prelude,' 'O Sweet Content,' 'An Old Love-Story.'
5972 'An Old Prayer,' 'Flowers and Fate.'
6073 'With Granny,' 'The Children's Thanks,' 'Separation,' 'The Lotos-Isles.'
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