Women Composers of Classical Music
Women Composers of Classical Music

Author: Mary F. McVicker

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780786443970

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As 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.

Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States
Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States

Author: Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780754604617

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This book is the most definitive attempt to date to discuss the achievements of women as composers of experimental and avant-garde music from the 1930s to the present day. Using a wealth of primary material, it also explores currently relevant issues in gender and technology. Drawing out the relationships between composers and their working environments, and between teachers and students, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner discusses the contribution of women composers to electroacoustic music. The book includes a bibliography and discography covering the work of ninety composers.

Sounds and Sweet Airs
Sounds and Sweet Airs

Author: Anna Beer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1780748574

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The 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.

Women Composers
Women Composers

Author: Diane Jezic

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781558610743

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Though rarely included in traditional music history, women have a remarkable tradition as composers of Western music. This book brings together musical and biographical material on twenty-five women, from the eleventh through the twentieth centuries. Each chapter focuses on one composer, providing an introduction to her life, an analysis of her music, a checklist of her works, and a bibliography. Extensive appendices include a historical outline showing female composers in relation to their more famous male contemporaries by period and genre, and suggestions for further readings and recordings.

Five Lives in Music
Five Lives in Music

Author: Cecelia Hopkins Porter

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2012-08-20

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0252037014

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A century later, Josephine Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important arts salon. Lastly, the twentieth century brought forth two exceptional women: Baroness Maria Bach, a composer and pianist of twentieth-century Vienna's upper bourgeoisie and its brilliant musical milieu in the era of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich Korngold; and Ann Schein, a brilliant and dauntless American piano prodigy whose career, ongoing today though only partially recognized, led her to study with the legendary virtuosos Arthur Rubinstein and Myra Hess.

American Women Composers
American Women Composers

Author: Karin Pendle

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9789057021459

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

From Spirituals to Symphonies
From Spirituals to Symphonies

Author: Helen Walker-Hill

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 0252074548

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Exploding 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.