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  title info:
    title: Emily Dickinson's music book and the musical life of an American poet
  name:
    name part: Boziwick, George
    name part: 1954-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: After years of studying piano as a young woman in her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson curated her music book, a common practice at the time. Now part of the Dickinson Collection in the Houghton Library of Harvard University, this bound volume of 107 pieces of published sheet music includes the poet's favorite instrumental piano music and vocal music, ranging from theme and variation sets to vernacular music, which was also enjoyed by the family's servants. Offering a fresh historical perspective on a poetic voice that has become canonical in American literature, this original study brings this artifact to life, documenting Dickinson's early years of musical study through the time her music was bound in the early 1850s, which tellingly coincided with the writing of her first poems. Using Dickinson's letters and poems alongside newspapers and other archival sources, George Boziwick explores the various composers, music sellers and publishers behind this music and Dickinson's attendance at performances, presenting new insights into the multiple layers of meaning that music held for her.
  note: George Boziwick.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dickinson, Emily
      name part: 1830-1886
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dickinson, Emily
      name part: 1830-1886
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Music appreciation
  subject:
    topic: Music and literature
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: PS1541.Z5 B556 2022
  classification: 811/.4
  identifier: 9781625346599
  identifier: 162534659X
  identifier: 9781625346605
  identifier: 1625346603
  identifier: 9781613769379
  identifier: 9781613769386
  identifier: 2021054480
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220310
    record change date: 20220830173428.4
    record identifier: in00004591994