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Music and the skillful listener : American women compose the natural world /
For the author, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In this book, the author explores the relationship between listening and musical composition, focusing on nine American women composers inspired by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington ; Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Music, nature, place.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For the author, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In this book, the author explores the relationship between listening and musical composition, focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. The author situates "nature composing" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, the author employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the larger world of contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of nine women composers who seek to understand nature through music. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 397 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253007933 0253007933 1299106005 9781299106000 |