十九世紀中葉前，美國僅存在著少數的古典音樂學習或演出的機構，在這樣的一個新興音樂環境中，出現了一群作曲家，他們在波士頓度過了部分的職業生涯，其中一位即是艾咪．畢琦 (Amy Beach, 1867 -1944)。
艾咪．畢琦以鋼琴家的身分演奏於美國與歐洲，並以作曲家的身分活躍於當時，創作了相當數量的鋼琴作品；她也是美國第一位成功創作大規模作品的女性作曲家。
本論文主要探究她的鋼琴獨奏作品。第一章為研究緒論。第二章概述美國二十世紀前之音樂的發展。第三章為艾咪．畢琦生平與創作歷程之論述。第四章則分析探究其鋼琴獨奏作品；可發現其在和聲語言、豐厚的織度與持續音的使用上是屬於浪漫樂派的手法，但架構曲式及樂句使用則屬古典形式的風格。第五章為總結。

Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, few institutions existed in the United States for the study or performance of classical music. Out of this emerging musical environment in America came a group of composers who spent a portion of their professional lives in Boston. Among these was Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (Amy Beach, 1867 -1944).
Mrs. Beach performed as a pianist in both the United States and Europe, and as a composer produced a significant amount of works for piano. She was the first American woman composer who successfully composed large scale works.
The purpose of this study was to analyze selected solo piano compositions of Mrs. Beach. Chapter 1 presents the need and purpose of the study. Chapter 2 reviews the cultural environment of art music in the United States prior to the twentieth century. Chapter 3 provides a brief biography of Mrs. Beach. In Chapter 4, an analysis of Mrs. Beach’s three compositional periods solo piano works. Harmonic language, thick textures, frequent modulation, and pedal points reveal the composer’s late romantic compositional language. Yet composer is classical in her approach to form and phrasing. A summary follows, which examines the basic components of the Beach compositional style.

一、樂譜

IMSLP Petrucci音樂圖書館http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Beach,_Amy_Marcy

Smith, Gail. The Life and Music of Amy Beach. Mel Bay Publications, Inc. 1992.

University of New Hampshire Library Milne Special ollections
http://www.library.unh.edu/special/index.php/amy-beach#folder-list

二、西文書目

Block, Adrienne F. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Works of an American Composer, 1867-1994. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Burns, Kristine Helen. Women and Music in America since 1900 : An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Clark, J. Bunker. The Dawning of American Keyboard Music. New York: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Cowell, Henry. American Composers on American Music: A Symposium. New York: F. Ungar, 1962.

Crawford, Richard. America’s Musical Life : a History. New York; London: W.W.Norton & Company, 2001

________. An Introduction to America's Music. New York : Norton, 2001.

Gann, Kyle. American Music in the Twentieth Century. New York : Schirmer, 1997.

Hitchcock, Hugh Wiley. Music in the United States : a Historical Introduction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1969.

Horowitz, Joseph. Classical Music in America : a History of Its Rise and Fall. New York : W. W. Norton, 2005.

Jenkins, Walter S. The Remarkable Mrs. Beach, American Composer. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1994.

Jezic, Diane. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found. New York : Feminist Press, 1994.

Kingman, Daniel. American Music: a Panorama. New York: Schirmer Books, 1990.

Nicholas Tawa. American Composers and Their Public : a Critical Look. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Rowland, David. The Cambridge Companion to the Piano. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Sablosky, Irving. American Music. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Smith, Gail. The Life and Music of Amy Beach. Pacific: Mel Bay Publications, Inc. 1992.

Tischler, Barbara L. An American Music : The Search for an American Musical Identity. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Todd, R. Larry. Nineteenth-Century Piano Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1990.

三、西文期刊

Armstrong, William. “A Talk with Mrs. H. H. A. Beach” Etude Magazine. February, 1904.

Block, Adrienne F. “Amy Beach’s Music on Native American Themes” American Music 8 (1900): 141-66.

Bomberger, E. Douglas. “Motivic Development in Amy Beach's Variations on Balkan Themes, op. 60” American Music, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 326-347.

Gay, Lisabel. “Mrs. H. H. A. Beach Sets an example” Etude Magazine. April, 1924.
http://www.scriabin.com/etude/1924/04/mrs-h-h-a-beach-sers-an-example.html

四、西文碩博士論文

Burnaman, Stephen Paul. “The Solo Piano Music of Edward MacDwell and Mrs. H. H. A. Beach: A Historical Analysis.” D. M. A. Diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

Clark, Donna Elizabeth Congleton, Pedagogical Analysis and Sequencing of Selected Intermediate-Level Solo Piano Compositions of Amy Beach. D. M. A. dissertation,
University of South Carolina, 1996.

Merrill, E. Lindsey, Mrs. H. H. A. Beach: Her Life and Music. Ph. D. dissertation, The University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, 1963.

Miles, Marmaduke Sidney, The Solo Piano Works of Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. D. M. A. Dissertation in The Peabody Conservatory of Music Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, 1985.

五、中文書目

王珉。《美國音樂史》。上海：上海音樂出版社，2005。

辛丰年。《鋼琴文化三百年》。臺北市：揚智文化，1999。

林立樹。《美國文化史-民主與平等》。臺北市：五南，2005。

林慧珍。《音樂賞析：鋼琴中的美感世界》。臺北市：新文京，2010。

馬清。《鋼琴藝術史》。台北市：揚智文化，1998。

Wolff, Konrad. 《鋼琴音樂大師 : 巴赫、海頓、莫札特、貝多芬、舒伯特、蕭邦、布拉姆斯鋼琴音樂中的個人風格元素》 (Masters of the Keyboard)。陳欣宜 譯。桃園市：原笙國際，2007。

陳靜瑜。《美國史》。臺北市：三民，2007。

蔡良玉。《美國專業音樂發展簡史》。北京：人民音樂出版社，1992。

六、中文期刊

楊景蘭。〈Amy Beach的鋼琴個性小品分析研究〉。《臺東師院學報》第13期(下，2002年)：137-154。

七、影音資料

Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944. By the still waters : the solo piano music of Amy Beach, volume one. New York, NY. : Arabesque, p1997.Compact Disc.

Classical Archives LLC — The Ultimate Classical Music Destination 1994-2013
http://www.classicalarchives.com/index.html

Feinberg, Alan. The American Romantic. London : Argo, p1990. Compact Disc.

Legrand, Michel. Four Piano Blues. (1994). Paris, France : Erato, p1994. Compact Disc.