Dolores Pesce

Biographic Data

ID3861409
NAMEDolores Pesce
GIVEN NAMESDolores
FAMILY NAMEPesce
SIGNATUREPESCE D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX0

  • A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets

    Open AccessJared C Hartt, Elizabeth Eva Leach et al.EDITORBOOKCritical Companion to Medieval…2018

  • MacDowell [McDowell], Edward

    Dolores Pesce, Margery Morgan LowensCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2013

  • Affinitas

    Dolores PesceCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • MacDowell [McDowell], Edward

    Dolores Pesce, Margery Morgan LowensCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Guido of Arezzo

    Claude V Palisca, Dolores PesceEDITORCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Liszt, Franz

    Dolores Pesce, Maria Eckhardt et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • The Other Sea in MacDowell's Sea Pieces

    Dolores PesceARTICLEAmerican Music1992

    In 1898, Edward MacDowell published his Sea Pieces, op. 55, a cycle of eight works for piano, each with title and epigraph (fig. 1). In describing them ten years later, Lawrence Gilman stated: This music is full of glamour, awe, mystery, of sea; of its sinister and terrible beauty, but also of its tonic charm, its secret allurement.' Such a positive musical depiction of sea had not been typical of earlier generations of composers, who had most of…

  • Musica Ficta

    Dolores PesceARTICLESpeculum1990

  • A Case for Coherent Pitch Organization in the Thirteenth-Century Double Motet

    Dolores PesceARTICLEMusic Analysis1990

    The issue of pitch organization in thirteenth-century double motets has never been satisfactorily addressed. Although we have assured ourselves that they are not grounded in a system of tonality or modality, we have not articulated which principles of pitch organization may in fact underlie them. In short, we have not answered the question of what makes the three-voice complex hold together from beginning to end. The difficulty stems in part from…

  • The Significance of Text in Thirteenth-Century Latin Motets

    Dolores PesceARTICLEActa Musicologica1986

  • New Light on the Programmatic Aesthetic of MacDowell's Symphonic Poems

    Dolores PesceARTICLEAmerican Music1986

    For most listeners the name Edward MacDowell brings to mind his piano collections-Woodland Sketches, op. 51, Sea Pieces, op. 55, Fireside Tales, op. 61, and New England Idyls, op. 62. These piano miniatures were all composed between 1890 and 1902, years that both Marian MacDowell, the composer's wife, and Lawrence Gilman, his biographer, have labeled his mature period.' Without exception every instrumental work from this period carries a programm…