[PDF] A Century Of Composition By Women eBook

Author : Linda Kouvaras
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 3030955575

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This book presents accounts of creative processes and contextual issues of current-day and early-twentieth century women composers. This collection of essays balances narratives of struggle, artistic prowess, and of "breaking through" the obstacles in the profession. Part I: Creative Work – Then and Now illuminates historical and present-day women’s composition and various iterations and conceptions of the “feminine voice”; Part II: The State of the Industry in the Present Day provides solutions from the frontline to sector inequities; and Part III: Creating; Collaborating: Composer and Performer Reflections offers personal stories of current creation in music. A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds draws together topical issues in feminist musicology over the past century. This volume provides insight into the professional and compositional procedures of creative women in music and stands to be relevant for composers, performers, industry professionals, students, and feminist and musicological scholars for many years to come.

Author : Judith Tick
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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First study of American women composers and attitudes towards women musicians in the nineteenth century.

Author : Jane M. Bowers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780252014703

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"Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and "look after" the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music. The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents biographies of outstanding performers and composers, as well as analyses of women musicians as a class, and provides examples of music from all periods including medieval chant, Renaissance song, Baroque opera, German lieder, and twentieth-century composition. Unlike most standard historical surveys, the book not only sheds light upon the musical achievements of women, it also illuminates the historical contexts that shaped and defined those achievements.

Author : Jill Halstead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351539442

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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.

Author : Laura Hamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108470289

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An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.

Author : Gail Smith
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 1609744853

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This collection of compositions for piano solo spans four centuries, including a rarely heard piece by Gottchalk's sister, Clara, as well as a charming piece by Marie Antoinette. Other composers include Madame Dussek, Teresa Carreno, Amy Beach, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and others. Three new solos are also offered by the author, Gail Smith.

Author : Julie Anne Sadie
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393034875

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Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.

Author : Sylvia Glickman
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN :

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"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.