George F. Boyle: Pianist, teacher, composer (Australia) [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3287645
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Peery, Irene Weiss
- Description:
- 409 p.
- Summary:
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This dissertation examines three areas of the professional career of Australia-born George Frederick Boyle (1886-1948): those of pianist, teacher, and composer. The first chapter deals with his early life in Australia, from 1886 to 1910, and the beginnings of his career as a pianist and composer. Chapters II and III explore his career as pianist, composer, and teacher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, from 1910 to 1922; at the Curtis Institute, from 1922 to 1924; and at the Institute of Musical Art (now called The Juilliard School), from 1923 to 1940. In Chapter IV George Boyle's ideas about the approach to the piano and his teaching techniques are discussed. Several articles written by Boyle and published during his lifetime are synopsized. These include his view on scales, practicing with the metronome, promoting keyboard accuracy, and unscrambling difficult passages. Many articles are quoted in full in Appendix E of the dissertation.
In the fifth chapter of the dissertation, selected piano compositions of George Boyle are analyzed. The works are chosen from three different time periods: his early compositions from Australia and Europe; pieces from the middle period, or his Peabody years; and works from the final period, while at Curtis and Juilliard. This study contains five appendices. The first appendix is three interviews, two with his wife, Pearle Boyle, and another with one of Boyle's former students at Peabody, Elmer Burgess. Appendix B is a chronological list of the complete works of George Frederick Boyle with dates of publications. In Appendix C is a full score of the Ballade written in 1921 for piano. A cassette recording of the Ballade by Irene Weiss Peery is in the Peabody record library. Recital programs of Boyle and those of his students are printed in Appendix D. Complete articles on Boyle's philosophies on teaching and folk music are found in Appendix E.
A complete bibliography is included at the end.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI8719377
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-06, Section: A, page: 1352.
- Thesis (D.M.A.)--Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, 1987.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
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- Creation date:
- 1987
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