Definition of MacDowell

1. Noun. United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908).

Exact synonyms: Edward Macdowell
Generic synonyms: Composer

Lexicographical Neighbors of MacDowell

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Mabelle
Mabey bridge
Mabey bridges
Mabia
Mabire
Mable
Mabo
Mac.
MacAdam
MacArthur
MacBook
MacBooks
MacConkey agar
MacDonald
MacDowell (current term)
MacGillivray's warbler
MacGregor
MacGuffin
MacGuffins
MacGyver
MacGyvered
MacGyvering
MacGyvers
MacLeish
MacNeal's tetrachrome blood stain
MacNeicean
MacSpaunday
MacTavish
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Literary usage of MacDowell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"CHAPTER II AN AMERICAN COMPOSER THE PASSING OF EDWARD MacDowell WHOM the gods love .1 Admirers of Edward MacDowell's Sonata Tragica may recall the last ..."

2. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1904)
"THE MUSIC OF EDWARD MacDowell. ROMANTIC in the real, beautiful, and exalting sense is the music of the American composer, Edward MacDowell, says Lawrence ..."

3. The American Magazine of Art by American Federation of Arts (1916)
"Here, six years before Edward MacDowell died, he found and purchased a deserted ... Mrs. MacDowell is the presiding genius and it is her wise management, ..."

4. Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of by Allen Augustus Brown (1916)
"11.443.133 MacDowell, Edward Alexander. Eight songs with pianoforte accompaniment. Op. 47. ... Six songs. Verses by Margaret De- land. Music by EA MacDowell ..."

5. Suum Cuique: Essays in Music by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck (1916)
"... the Library of Congress, as a precautionary measure at least, a complete file of the first editions of Edward MacDowell, the foremost American composer. ..."

6. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes (1911)
"Captain Corliss of C company welcomed us to the post and to his company, and said he hoped I should like MacDowell better than I did Ehrenberg. ..."

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