Woman Composers
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Women Composers
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Author : Diane Jezic
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 1994
Women Composers written by Diane Jezic and has been published by Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Woman Composers
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Author : Carol Plantamura
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Woman Composers written by Carol Plantamura and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Composers categories.
Women have long made music; some have recently been brought to light, others have long been recognized. From the ancient Greeks to modern times, here are their stories.
The Woman Composer
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Author : Jill Halstead
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Woman Composer written by Jill Halstead and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
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.
Woman In Music
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Author : George Putnam Upton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Woman In Music written by George Putnam Upton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Composers categories.
The Norton Grove Dictionary Of Women Composers
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Author : Julie Anne Sadie
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1995
The Norton Grove Dictionary Of Women Composers written by Julie Anne Sadie and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Music categories.
Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.
Woman S Work In Music
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Author : Arthur Elson
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Woman S Work In Music written by Arthur Elson and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
The Church of Rome, though admitting no women to a share in performing its services, has yet made a woman the patron saint of music. The religions of antiquity have paid even more homage to the weaker sex in the matter, as the multitude of musical nymphs and fostering goddesses will show. Of Saint Cecilia herself little is known accurately. The very apocryphal legend states that about the year 230 a noble Roman lady of that name, who had been converted to Christianity, was forced into an unwilling marriage with a certain Valerian, a pagan. She succeeded in converting her husband and his brother, but all were martyred because of their faith. This it is stated, took place under the Prefect Almacus, but history gives no such name. It is unfortunate, also, that the earliest writer mentioning her, Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers, speaks of her as having died in Sicily between the years 176 and 180. It is doubtful whether she would have been known at all, in connection with the art, but for a passing phrase in her story, which relates that she often united instrumental music to that of her voice in sounding the praises of the Lord. Because of these few words, she is famed throughout musical Christendom, half the musical societies in Europe are named after her, and Raphael's picture, Dryden's ode, Stefano Maderno's statue, and a hundred other great art works have come into existence. The earliest inferences of woman's influence in music are to be drawn from the Hindoo mythology. According to the tabular schedule of all knowledge, found in the ancient Brahmin records, music as an art belongs in the second chief division of lesser sciences, but on its mathematical and philosophical side it is accorded a much higher position, and is treated of in the oldest and most sacred Hindoo work, the Veda. This authority tells us that when Brahma had lain in the original egg some thousand billion years, he split it by the force of his thought, and made heaven and earth from the two fragments. After this, Manu brought into being ten great forces, whence came all the gods, goddesses, good and evil spirits. Among the lesser deities were the genii of music (Gandharbas) and those of the dance (Apsarasas), who furnished entertainment for the gods before man possessed the art.
The Cambridge Companion To Women Composers
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Author : Matthew Head
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-30
The Cambridge Companion To Women Composers written by Matthew Head and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with Music categories.
Exploring a diverse, distinguished repertoire, and transcending the rhetoric of neglect, this book transforms understanding of women composers.
Women Composers Of Classical Music
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Author : Mary F. McVicker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-02-14
Women Composers Of Classical Music written by Mary F. McVicker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with Music categories.
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.
A Century Of Composition By Women
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Author : Linda Kouvaras
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-01
A Century Of Composition By Women written by Linda Kouvaras and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Music categories.
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.
Female Composers Conductors Performers Musiciennes Of Interwar France 1919 1939
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Author : Laura Hamer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-20
Female Composers Conductors Performers Musiciennes Of Interwar France 1919 1939 written by Laura Hamer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-20 with Music categories.
Drawing upon extensive archival research, interview material, and musical analysis, Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars. Hamer positions the activities, achievements, and reception of women composers, conductors, and performers against a contemporary socio-political climate that was largely hostile to female professionalism. The musical styles and techniques of Marguerite Canal, Jeanne Leleu, Germaine Tailleferre, Yvonne Desportes, Elsa Barraine, and Claude Arrieu are discussed with reference to significant works dating from the interwar period. Hamer highlights the activities of Jane Evrard and her Orchestre féminin de Paris as well as the reception of the Orchestra of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique, a contemporary pro-suffrage organisation that was dedicated to defending the collective interests of musiciennes and campaigning for their employment rights. Beyond women composers and conductors, Hamer also sheds light on female performers and their contribution to the interwar early music revival.