Tuneful Recollections: The Formal Implications of Self-Borrowing in Two Orchestral Works by Amy Beach

William O'Hara, Gettysburg College

Presented at the 2023 meeting of the Society for Musical Analysis, hosted by the Oxford University Faculty of Music.

Abstract

In this presentation, William O'Hara discussed how American composer Amy Beach (1867 - 1944) often re-wrote her own early songs in order to use them in her larger instrumental works.