{"id":83742,"date":"2022-04-27T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=83742"},"modified":"2022-06-23T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T16:05:32","slug":"amy-beach-poetry-and-the-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/amy-beach-poetry-and-the-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Beach: Poetry and the Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Poetry was a major theme in the music of American composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amybeach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amy Marcy Cheney Beach<\/a> (1867-1944). Her 117 art songs explore a huge range of poets, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/robert-browning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Browning<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/robert-burns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Burns<\/a>. Amy Beach\u2019s love of poetry also appears in a large catalogue of choral compositions, with settings of poets like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/oliver-wendell-holmes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9KyH9hbA0Vo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Chambered Nautilus<\/em><\/a>,<em> <\/em>Op. 66, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Saint-Francis-of-Assisi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Francis of Assisi<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PAoRL-KXqb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Canticle of the Sun<\/em><\/a>, Op. 123.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beach\u2019s immersion in poetry went beyond texted music. Poetry also influenced music for the instrument Beach played the most: the piano. In honor of National Poetry Month, we present a selection of piano works by Amy Beach, all inspired by poetry. Beach inscribed the scores of the first six selections with poetic quotations, which we\u2019ve reproduced here for you. In the last two selections, the titles themselves are quotations from one of humanity\u2019s oldest surviving books of poetry, the Book of Psalms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry was a major theme in the music of American composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944). Her 117 art songs explore a huge range of poets, from Robert Browning to Robert Burns. Amy Beach\u2019s love of poetry also appears in a large catalogue of choral compositions, with settings of poets like Oliver Wendell Holmes, in &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":83819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:36:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}