Pieces by Amy Beach, Cécile Chaminade and Rebecca Clarke are part of the wider suggested works on the Edexcel A level AoS2 ‘Instrumental Music’ study lists. All three represent links between Europe and the USA: Amy Beach was an American composer who travelled extensively in Europe; the English-born Rebecca Clarke had an American father and eventually settled in the United States; and the French composer Cécile Chaminade achieved huge popularity in the States and toured there extensively.

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