Download or read book Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian written by Adrienne Fried Block and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography admirably fills that gap, fully examining the connections between Beach's life and work in light of social currents and dominant ideologies. Adrienne Fried Block has written a biography that takes full account of issues of gender and musical modernism, considering Beach in the contexts of her time and of her composer contemporaries, both male and female. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian will be of great interest to students and scholars of American music, and to music lovers in general.