Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music

The book traces the life and career of Edward MacDowell, offering a biographical sketch, personal portraits, and assessments of his character; it evaluates his compositional style and places works in context through analyses, especially a fully illustrated study of the Indian Suite, Op. 48. It reproduces correspondence, discusses the establishment and aims of the MacDowell Colony, and catalogs compositions with numbered and unnumbered works plus an alphabetical index. Interspersed are lectures and critical essays on musical aesthetics and form, and the author acknowledges sources and manuscript materials used in compiling the study.