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    Edward MacDowell His Work and Ideals
    Edward MacDowell His Work and Ideals
    Edward MacDowell His Work and Ideals
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    Edward MacDowell His Work and Ideals

    By Elizabeth Fry Page

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Edward MacDowell His Work and Ideals - Elizabeth Fry Page

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Edward MacDowell, by Elizabeth Fry Page

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Edward MacDowell

      Author: Elizabeth Fry Page

      Release Date: October 16, 2004 [eBook #13767]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EDWARD MACDOWELL***

      E-text prepared by David Newman, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      EDWARD MACDOWELL

      His Work and Ideals

      by

      ELIZABETH FRY PAGE

      With Poetical Interpretations by the Author

      New York

      Dedicated to MRS. ALINE REESE BLONDNER

      Founder and Honorary President of the MacDowell Club of Nashville,

      Tennessee.

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      EDWARD MACDOWELL

        His Work and Ideals

      POETICAL INTERPRETATIONS

        To MacDowell

        A. D. 1620

        Song

        In Deep Woods

        Shadow Dance

        At an Old Trysting-Place

        To a Water Lily

        Told at Sunset

        To a Wild Rose

        The Spirit Call

        A Deserted Farm

        In Memoriam

      PREFACE

      This is not merely an appreciation of Edward MacDowell as a man and a composer, but a study of the influences and natural endowments that combined to produce his style, a comparison of his work with that of others who achieved fame in other branches of the fine arts, all of which he felt were closely allied and supplemental, and a glance at his ideals and their evolution at Peterboro.

      Most of his compositions are written around some poetic idea and are so suggestive and appealing to the imagination that in studying them the native poetic fancy is easily aroused; but the full effect is lost to the casual hearer who is not familiar with the theme. The accompanying poems are interpretations of some of his best-known piano numbers, based upon the briefly indicated poetic idea upon which they are founded, reinforced by a careful intellectual study of each composition and its appeal to the individual creative faculty of the author.

      The sonnet to MacDowell was written at the beginning of the two darkened years preceding his death, when he forgot that there was such a thing as music.

      A.D. 1620 and Song are from the Sea Pieces. The former describes the sailing of the galleon bearing the Pilgrim Fathers to America. The Song, which is distinctly Irish in its melody, seems to me to be sung by a lad on board the galleon, who sings and whistles to keep up the courage of his fellow-pilgrims, thereby forgetting his own pain.

      The Shadow Dance is written three notes to two, and this difficult musical form is represented by the three shadows dancing before two people. A Deserted Farm is a lyric description of the now beautiful Hill Crest as he found it. The Spirit Call is suggested by the Celtic vein of mystery and haunting sadness pervading most of the MacDowell music.

      The sonnet To a Wild Rose was inspired by a rumor from the musician's sick room that his night had passed and he would recover; but this was a false hope, and it was not long until he was sleeping on a green hill-side at Peterboro, his resting-place, in the grandeur of its simplicity, suggesting the modest, child-hearted, nature-loving man who had passed on beyond earth's discord.

      The other poems in this little

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