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Dudley Buck

by N. Lee Orr

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Format Multiple-Item Product
Book Series American Composers
ISBN-10 0252032799
ISBN-13 9780252032790
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jun 25th, 2008
Print length 176 Pages
Weight 414 grams
Dimensions 15.90 x 22.30 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification: Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groupsArt music, orchestral and formal musicComposers and songwritersKeyboard instruments
Ksh 7,200.00
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A popular Victorian composer of organ and choral music
An influential composer, conductor, and music teacher, Dudley Buck (1839-1909) helped establish the organ in American musical life. N. Lee Orr''s study of Buck''s life and career details his stint as teacher to Charles Ives, organ recital tours around the Midwest, and work composing music for church organs. Buck''s Grand Sonata in E Flat became a great hit wherever he played it, and his Variations and Fugue on the "Star-Spangled Banner" remains a standard in organ repertoire. Intended for practical use, his music was challenging, sometimes full of romantic flourishes, counterpoint, and part singing, but still accessible to amateur musicians and choirs.

During the 1870s, Buck composed extensively for choir, orchestra, and organ, while also helping organize and conduct the first Central Park Garden Concerts. His reputation was such that he was asked to collaborate with the poet Sidney Lanier to commemorate the nation''s centennial, and his Forty-Sixth Psalm was the first American composition performed by Boston''s Handel and Haydn Society. Placing Buck''s life and career within the Victorian mindset that sought to draw citizens into higher circles of art and beauty, Orr stresses how Buck''s music touched players and listeners of all classes.

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