The Search for Thomas F. Ward, Teacher of Frederick Delius
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813013984 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book will be of use to all scholars of 19th- and early 20th-century music for the light it casts on the development of Delius's mature compositional style, as well as to general readers interested in the cultural history of 19th-century Brooklyn and Florida."--William Duckworth, Bucknell UniversityFrom the foreword:"Speaking of those early days in Florida, Delius once said to me, 'Ward's counterpoint lessons were the only lessons from which I ever derived any benefit. He has prepared manuscripts for publication and edited scores by Babbitt, Becker, Cage, Crumb, Feldman, Takemitsu, and numerous other composers in the Peters Catalogue, and he has written widely for journals such as Musical America, The Musical Quarterly, and Notes. His lifelong fascination with Delius eventually led to an obsession with the mysterious aura surrounding the composer's most important teacher. Gillespie traces Ward's life from his Catholic musical
Ward (1856-1912), the American teacher of composer Frederick Delius, died in historical oblivion and was buried in an unmarked grave, apparently too poor to pay his own funeral expenses. . Johns River south of Jacksonville, Florida. Gillespie traces Ward's life from his Catholic musical upbringing as an orphan in Brooklyn, to many parts of Florida, to his death in Houston, offering new information about art and folk music in both Brooklyn and Florida in the late nineteenth century. From the Back Cover Thomas F. This biography of Ward describes his crucial influence on Delius, an Englishman whose formative musical years were spent under Ward's tutelage in the mid-1880s on an orange plantation on the St. A leitmotiv running through the book is the African-American folksong "Oh Honey, I Am Going Down the River in the Morning", whose origin in northern Florida was previously unverified and which forms the basis of one of Delius's most famous orchestral/choral compositions, Appalac
An Exemplary Biography of a Forgotten American Since his achievements as a music publisher are familiar, may I recall that Don Gillespie's biography is a masterpiece of historical recreation--personal and yet factual, detailed and yet thorough--about an obscure but influential music figure in American music a century ago. For those who don't already know, Ward ta