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Author: Michael K. Slayton
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0810877481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of essays and interviews, nine gifted composers openly discuss their work.
Author: Anna Beer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 1780748574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man’s world. ‘Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves one hankering for a second volume.’ The Sunday Times Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy. Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard. Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight composers across the centuries, from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century London, restoring to their rightful place exceptional women whom history has forgotten.
Author: Helen Walker-Hill
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0252074548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop Helen Walker-Hill's unique study provides a carefully researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the effect of race, gender, and class, From Spirituals to Symphonies notes the important role played by individual personalities and circumstances in shaping this underappreciated category of American art. The study also provides in-depth exploration of the backgrounds, experiences, and musical compositions of eight African American women including Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, and Julia Perry, who combined the techniques of Western art music with their own cultural traditions and individual gifts. Despite having gained national and international recognition during their lifetimes, the contributions of many of these women are today forgotten.
Author: Margaret R. Simmons
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780809325238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncluding thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano created since 1968 by eighteen artists, ANew Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers navigates a varied musical terrain from classical European traditions to jazz and spirituals. With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this important collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.
Author: Karin Pendle
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9789057021459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Mary F. McVicker
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-02-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786443970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs early as the 1500s, a surprising number of women have composed classical music. Many were successful, finding venues for both publishing and performing their music; others found the social barriers for women impossible to overcome. This book provides access to these composers, both well known and obscure. Arranged chronologically by era, the profiles are further divided into countries. For each female composer within a country, a brief biographical sketch is provided, as well as a description of her body of work. This text also includes an extensive timeline of operatic works by female composers.
Author: Denise Von Glahn
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0253006627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world
Author: James R. Briscoe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004-08-11
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780253216830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This anthology of musical scores is a new edition of a text that has been widely used in courses in women's music. James R. Briscoe's New Historical Anthology compiles fifty-five compositions by forty-six women composers from the ancient Greeks to the present. Each work is introduced by an informative essay by a specialist in the field, with recommendations for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Christine Ammer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781574670615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the contributions of women instrumentalists, composers, teachers, and conductors to American music, and suggests why they have gone unnoticed in the past.
Author: George Putnam Upton
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 358
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