Music and the Skillful Listener : American Women Compose the Natural World /

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"For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim 'be seen and not heard.' In Skillful Listeners, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Von Glahn, Denise, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Doolittle, Emily, > 1972-
Larsen, Libby, > 1950-
Bond, Victoria, > 1945-
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe, > 1939-
Tower, Joan, > 1938-
Oliveros, Pauline, > 1932-
Talma, Louise, > 1906-1996.
Bauer, Marion, > 1887-1955.
Beach, Amy, > 1867-1944.
Kvinnliga tonsättare > historia.
Musikvetenskap.
Kompositörer > historia > Förenta staterna > 1800-talet > 1900-talet.
Naturdarstellung
Komposition
Komponistin
Women composers.
Nature in music.
Music by women composers.
Nature dans la musique.
Musique de compositrices > Histoire et critique.
Compositrices > États-Unis.
Music by women composers > History and criticism.
Women composers > United States.
USA
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim 'be seen and not heard.' In Skillful Listeners, Von Glahn 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. Von Glahn 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, Von Glahn skillfully 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."--Publisher's website.
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages): illustrations, music ;
ISBN:9780253007933

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