[PDF] Women Composers eBook

Author : Mary F. McVicker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 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.

Author : Julie Anne Sadie
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 20,54 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 : Diane Jezic
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 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.

Author : Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 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.

Author : Cecelia Hopkins Porter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 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.

Author : Karin Pendle
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789057021459

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

Author : Anna Beer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780748574

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A companion to the Classic FM series 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
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2007
Category : African American women composers
ISBN : 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.