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Book Synopsis The Pandora Guide to Women Composers by : Sophie Fuller
Download or read book The Pandora Guide to Women Composers written by Sophie Fuller and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground breaking reference book Sophie Fuller provides accessible, original and extensive information in an A to Z of over a hundred women composers from Britain and the United States, covering the period from 1629 right up to the contemporary scene. Each entry gives a flavour of the composer's milieu as well as her music, to provide a fascinating insight into both her life and creative works. Fuller examines the reasons why women composers have been so neglected, reassesses their work in the light of recent scholarship, both musicological and biographical and provides a critical frame of reference in which to place both the women and their music. Book cover.
Book Synopsis The Pandora Guide to Women Composers by : Sophie Fuller
Download or read book The Pandora Guide to Women Composers written by Sophie Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground breaking reference book Sophie Fuller provides accessible, original & extensive information in a A to Z format of over a hundred women composers from Britain & the U.S., covering the period from 1629 right up to the contemporary scene. Each entry provides a flavor of the composer's milieu as well as her music, to provide a fascinating insight into both her life & creative works. Examines the reasons why women composers have been so neglected, reassesses their work in the light of recent scholarship, both musicological & biographical, & provides a critical frame of reference in which to place both the women & their music. Photos.
Book Synopsis A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers by : Pamela Y. Dees
Download or read book A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers written by Pamela Y. Dees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers, A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century. The work also features biographies and extensive bibliographical information for each composer. Arranged alphabetically by composer into categories including single works, collections, and anthologies, the music is also described in terms of grade level, genre, mood, style characteristics, and technical requirements, and ranges in difficulty from late elementary to virtuoso concert repertoire. Far too many teachers, students, professional musicians, and audiences are unaware of the contributions made by women in music, and of the beauty and merit of their specific compositions. This reference work provides an invaluable addition to the current literature.
Book Synopsis Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States by : Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner
Download or read book Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States written by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers by : Julie Anne Sadie
Download or read book The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers written by Julie Anne Sadie and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.
Book Synopsis From Convent to Concert Hall by : Sylvia Glickman
Download or read book From Convent to Concert Hall written by Sylvia Glickman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Composers were chosen based on the excellence of their music, their importance in the period's daily musical life, and the availability of information on their lives, music, and recordings. Taken together, they represent a broad range of styles, countries, and eras. This book is a valuable resource for students from high school through university, and for anyone interested in musical history and composers."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers by : Catherine Roma
Download or read book The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers written by Catherine Roma and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to light the choral works of three contemporary British women composers: Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), and Thea Musgrave (1928- ). Earning solid reputations in Britain through their varying compositional styles, their music has revealed them to be substantial, prolific composers who are representative of major trends in twentieth-century British choral composition. Lutyens, often described as a musical pioneer, incorporates a highly personal and imaginative style in her use of twelve-tone technique, and her departures from the strict practice of serial writing are always highly personal and imaginative. Maconchy describes her own technique as 'impassioned argument,' using compositional tools such as contrapuntal textures in both her instrumental and choral works, resulting in a high degree of chromatic color. Musgrave encompasses many modes of expression, from her early choral works featuring tonal diatonic writing, to a free chromatic style with imprecise tonality at times. Complete with historical perspective, musical examples, and reproductions of choral texts, this resource of important and little known contemporary choral works demonstrates the diverse approaches used by these and other contemporary composers, and contributes to the growing literature on women in music.
Book Synopsis The Woman Composer by : Jill Halstead
Download or read book The Woman Composer written by Jill Halstead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike previous anthologizing examinations of women and musical composition, this book concentrates on the reasons why there have been, and continue to be, so few women composers. Jill Halstead focuses on the experiences of nine composers born in the twentieth century (Avril Coleridge Taylor, Grace Williams, Elizabeth Maconchy, Minna Keal, Ruth Gipps, Antoinette Kirkwood, Enid Luff, Judith Bailey and Bryony Jagger) to explore the physiological, social and political factors that have inhibited women from pursuing careers as composers. Is there a biological argument for inferior female creativity? Do social structures, such as marriage, serve to restrict potential women composers? Is the gender of a composer reflected in the music they write? If so, how would this manifest itself? The conclusions that are reached are as complex and challenging as the questions that are raised. This powerful and provocative book aims to open up debate on these issues, which have all too often be avoided by critics and musicologists whose writings have perpetuated arguments that denigrate women's ability to compose. By confronting these arguments, this study will hopefully begin a reassessment of attitudes towards women and music, so that women composers are less of a rarity by the end of the next century.
Book Synopsis Violin Music by Women Composers by :
Download or read book Violin Music by Women Composers written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides convenient access to a body of solo, recital, concerto, and chamber music literature that will enrich the repertoire of the violinist. Includes a biographies section which briefly summarizes the life and work of women composers from the Baroque to 20th century American and International. The music section identifies and describes compositions in 12 genre categories. The discography organizes recorded works by composer and by title. Reference and Research Book News This bibliography enhances the repertoire of the violinist by providing convenient access to a new solo recital, concerto, and chamber music literature: the music of women composers. While other source books exist in which some of this information could be found, it is often incomplete or in such abundance that selection is difficult. This well-organized bibliography will not only simplify the process of obtaining such information, but it represents a valuable contribution to the relatively new study of the musical compositions of women. Violin Music by Women Composers is divided into three main sections: Biographies, Music, and Discography. Preceding these is a general alphabetical index to all the composers included in the work, with reference to information on them contained in the three main sections following. The Biographies section is divided among five eras beginning with Baroque and concluding with Twentieth Century International. The second section of the book, Music, is organized in twelve genre categories in which composers are entered alphabetically along with the titles of their compositions. Wherever possible, information is provided on date of composition, publisher and/or source, and duration; often with additional comments included. Library sources are given for manuscripts and for published music that is out of print; otherwise, a current publisher is listed. The Discography section organizes recorded works alphabetically by composer, then alphabetically by title. This section also includes a directory of recording companies. The volume concludes with a bibliography and references. Violin Music by Women Composers is a unique, up-to-date, and thoughtfully organized resource. Exploring its contents will certainly inform and add to the repertoire of violinists and their presenters.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers by : Matthew Head
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers written by Matthew Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond narratives of female suppression, and exploring the critical potential of a diverse, distinguished repertoire, this Companion transforms received understanding of women composers. Organised thematically, and ranging beyond elite, Western genres, it explores the work of diverse female composers from medieval to modern times, besides the familiar headline names. The book's prologue traces the development of scholarship on women composers over the past five decades and the category of 'woman composer' itself. The chapters that follow reveal scenes of flourishing creativity, technical innovation, and (often fleeting) recognition, challenging long-held notions around invisibility and neglect and dismissing clichés about women composers and their work. Leading scholars trace shifting ideas about composers and compositional processes, contributing to a wider understanding of how composers have functioned in history and making this volume essential reading for all students of musical history. In an epilogue, three contemporary composers reflect on their careers and identities.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music by : Rhiannon Mathias
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music written by Rhiannon Mathias and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women’s contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, music education, ethnomusicology as well as in the music industries. The handbook falls into six parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the rich variety of subject matter the reader can expect to encounter in the handbook as a whole. Part II focuses on what might be termed the more traditional strand of feminist musicology – research which highlights the work of historical and/or neglected composers. Part III explores topics concerned with feminist aesthetics and music creation and Part IV focuses on questions addressing the performance and reception of music and musicians. The narrative of the handbook shifts in Part V to focus on opportunities and leadership in the music professions from a Western perspective. The final section of the handbook (Part VI) provides new frames of context for women’s positions as workers, educators, patrons, activists and promoters of music. This is a key reference work for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in music and gender.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 by : Laura Hamer
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 written by Laura Hamer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.
Book Synopsis British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century by : Laura Seddon
Download or read book British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century written by Laura Seddon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth century. Laura Seddon argues that the Cobbett competitions, instigated by Walter Willson Cobbett in 1905, and the formation of the Society of Women Musicians in 1911 contributed to the explosion of instrumental music written by women in this period and highlighted women's place in British musical society in the years leading up to and during the First World War. Seddon investigates the relationship between Cobbett, the Society of Women Musicians and women composers themselves. The book’s six case studies - of Adela Maddison (1866-1929), Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), Morfydd Owen (1891-1918), Ethel Barns (1880-1948), Alice Verne-Bredt (1868-1958) and Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962) - offer valuable insight into the women’s musical education and compositional careers. Seddon’s discussion of their chamber works for differing instrumental combinations includes an exploration of formal procedures, an issue much discussed by contemporary sources. The individual composers' reactions to the debate instigated by the Society of Women Musicians, on the future of women's music, is considered in relation to their lives, careers and the chamber music itself. As the composers in this study were not a cohesive group, creatively or ideologically, the book draws on primary sources, as well as the writings of contemporary commentators, to assess the legacy of the chamber works produced.
Download or read book Women & Music written by Karin Pendle and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-22 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the “milestone” work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages (College Music Symposium). This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.
Book Synopsis Uniform Titles for Music by : Michelle S. Koth
Download or read book Uniform Titles for Music written by Michelle S. Koth and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniform Titles for Music explains the concept and practice of uniform titles for musical works by a single composer and works of unknown or collective authorship. The book provides a step-by-step approach to establishing uniform titles.
Download or read book Women in Music written by Karin Pendle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.
Book Synopsis A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers by : Pamela Youngdahl Dees
Download or read book A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers written by Pamela Youngdahl Dees and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
