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- Quarto, 14 inches high by 11 inches wide. Self-wraps, 5 pages of music & lyrics printed on one side only of 5 sheets of G. Schirmer, Inc. music paper. The pages have been bound together with early linen tape along the spine and the sheets have been taped together back to back with linen tape at the corners. The pages are soiled and the edges creased. Good. The American composer and pianist Mary Howe (1882-1964) took private lessons with the accomplished pianist Hermione Seron before pursuing further studies at Baltimore's Peabody Institute. She studied piano under and Richard Burmeister and also pursued studies in composition with Gustav Strube, Ernest Hutcheson, and Harold Randolph. Howe traveled to Paris in 1933 to continue her studies with Nadia Boulanger. With her friend Anne Hull, she performed "Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos" and other works but she preferred composition. Influenced by neo-romanticism and modernism, she first composed for the piano but soon moved on to composing orchestral works inspired by nature and American themes. Among her works were "Sand, Stars, Rock, Three Pieces after Emily Dickinson" and "Chain Gang Song" a composition for orchestra and chorus which was praised at the time for its lack of "femininity". Developing a passion for singing, she incorporated texts by William Blake into the powerful works she composed in support of the troops fighting in the Second World War. Her numerous compositions include the choral works "Catalina", "Chain Gang Song", "Robin Hood's Heart", "Williamsburg Sunday", "Great Land of Mine", and songs such as "Old English Lullaby", "Somewhere in France", "Cossack Cradle Song", "Berceuse", "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "To the Unknown Soldier", "O Proserpina", and much more. "Castellana" for 2 pianos and orchestra, "Dirge", "Axiom", "American Piece", "Coulenned", "Potomac River", "Paean" represent some of her several orchestral compositions. Seller Inventory # 96249
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