Women Composers : The Lost Tradition Found /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jezic, Diane
Otros Autores: Wood, Elizabeth, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994.
Edición:2nd ed. /
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women composers.
Music
Musique > Discographie.
Musique > Biobibliographie.
Compositrices > Biographies.
Music > Discography.
Music > Bio-bibliography.
Women composers > Biography.
Discographies.
Bibliographies.
Biographies.
Bio-bibliography.
discographies.
bibliographies.
collective biographies.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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