Edward MacDowell

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Title: Edward MacDowell
Author: Elizabeth Fry Page
Release Date: October 16, 2004 [eBook #13767]
Language: English
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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 ...