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Women Composers : The Lost Tradition Found
Author
Title
Women Composers : The Lost Tradition Found / Diane Peacock Jezic.
ISBN
9781558610743
155861074X
Edition
2nd ed. / 2nd ed. prepared by Elizabeth Wood.
Publication
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©1994.
Physical Description
1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Part one. The Medieval and Baroque periods. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): life in the medieval convents
Francesca Caccini (1587-ca. 1640): the Medici court of Florence
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1664): the Venetian musical academies
Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704): the convent in Novara
Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1666-1729): the court of Louis XIV
Part two. The Classical period. Anna Amalia, princess of Prussia (1723-1787): the court of Frederick the Great
Anna Amalia, duchess of Saxe-Weimar (1739-1807): the court of Weimar
Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824): Vienna and beyond
Part three. The Romantic period - songs. Louise Reichardt (1779-1826): the Romantic spirit
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847): domestic music making
Josephine Lang (1815-1880): the public sphere
Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896): touring artist and composer
Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910): international recognition
Part four. The Romantic period and early twentieth century - instrumental music. Jeanne-Louise Dumont Farrenc (1804-1875): pianist, composer, scholar
Louise Pauline Marie Heritte-Viardot (1841-1918): musical families
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944): chevaliere de la legion d'honneure
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): the prix de Rome
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944): U. S. Symphonist
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979): English performer and composer
Part five. Six living U. S. composers. Katherine Hoover (b. 1937): virtuoso flutist and composer
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939): the Pulitzer prize
Ruth Schonthal (b. 1924): emigre composer and teacher
Barbara Kolb (b. 1939): new vistas
Marga Richter (b. 1926): chamber music and orchestra composer
Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945): pianist, author, composer
Appendix 1. Music appreciation textbooks ranked in order of number of women composers mentioned
Appendix 2. Record companies featuring women composers
Appendix 3. An outline of western music from 850 through the 1940s
Appendix 4. A selected list of publishers featuring women composers
Appendix 5. A selected list of twentieth-century women conductors
Appendix 6. Recordings available from Leonarda productions.
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Discographies.
Bibliographies.
Biographies.
Discographies.
Biographies.
Bio-bibliography.
Bibliographies.
discographies.
bibliographies.
collective biographies.
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