Douglas Moore
American composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Douglas Stuart Moore was an American composer, songwriter, organist, pianist, conductor, educator, actor, and author. A composer who mainly wrote works with an American subject, his music is generally characterized by lyricism in a popular or conservative style which generally eschewed the more experimental progressive trends of musical modernism. Composer Virgil Thomson described Moore as a neoromantic composer who was influenced by American folk music. While several of his works enjoyed popularity during his lifetime, only his folk opera The Ballad of Baby Doe has remained well known into the 21st century.
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- The songs my mother never taught me (4)
- A guide to musical styles, from madrigal to modern music (1963) (2)
- From madrigal to modern music : a guide to musical styles (1942) (1)
- Gallantry : a soap opera in one act (1959) (0)
- The ballad of Baby Doe : opera in two acts (1959) (0)
- The devil and Daniel Webster : an opera in one act (1939) (0)
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