Edward MacDowell: A Study

Edward MacDowell, the first Celtic voice that has spoken commandingly out of musical art, achieved that priority through natural if not inevitable processes. Both his grandfathe...

In his personal intercourse with the world, MacDowell, like so many sensitive and gifted men, had the misfortune to give very often a wholly false account of himself. In reality...

Among those music-makers of to-day who are both pre-eminent and representative the note of sincere romance is infrequently sounded. The fact must be obvious to the most casual o...

MacDowell's impulse toward significant expression was not slow in declaring itself. The first "modern suite" (op. 10), the earliest of his listed works, which at first glance se...

MacDowell never hesitated, as I have elsewhere said, to adapt--some would say "warp"--the sonata form to the needs of his poetic purposes. Moreover, he declared his convictions...

With the completion and production of his "Indian" suite for orchestra (op. 48) MacDowell came, in a measure, into his own. Mr. Philip Hale, writing apropos of a performance of...

To gain a true sense of MacDowell's place in American music it is necessary to remember that twenty-five years ago, when he sent from Germany, as the fruit of his apprenticeship...

Any one who should undertake casually to examine MacDowell's songs _seriatim_, beginning with his earliest listed work in this form--the "Two Old Songs," op. 9--would not improb...

Op. 40. _Six Love Songs_, for voice and piano (1890): 1. Sweet, Blue-eyed Maid 2. Sweetheart, Tell Me 3. Thy Beaming Eyes 4. For Love's Sweet Sake 5. O Lovely Rose 6. I Ask but...