Sounds and Sweet Airs

Sounds and Sweet Airs
Title Sounds and Sweet Airs PDF eBook
Author Anna Beer
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 533
Release 2016-04-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1780748574

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The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man’s world. ‘Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves one hankering for a second volume.’ The Sunday Times Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy. Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard. Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight composers across the centuries, from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century London, restoring to their rightful place exceptional women whom history has forgotten.

Women Composers of Classical Music

Women Composers of Classical Music
Title Women Composers of Classical Music PDF eBook
Author Mary F. McVicker
Publisher McFarland
Pages 0
Release 2011-02-14
Genre Music
ISBN 9780786443970

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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.

Woman in Music

Woman in Music
Title Woman in Music PDF eBook
Author George Putnam Upton
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 1886
Genre Musicians
ISBN

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NHAMW

NHAMW
Title NHAMW PDF eBook
Author James R. Briscoe
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 542
Release 2004-08-11
Genre Music
ISBN 9780253216830

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"This anthology of musical scores is a new edition of a text that has been widely used in courses in women's music. James R. Briscoe's New Historical Anthology compiles fifty-five compositions by forty-six women composers from the ancient Greeks to the present. Each work is introduced by an informative essay by a specialist in the field, with recommendations for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.

Music by Black Women Composers

Music by Black Women Composers
Title Music by Black Women Composers PDF eBook
Author Helen Walker-Hill
Publisher Center for Black Music Rsrch
Pages 128
Release 1995
Genre Music
ISBN 9780929911045

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Music and Women

Music and Women
Title Music and Women PDF eBook
Author Sophie Drinker
Publisher Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages 444
Release 1995
Genre History
ISBN 9781558611160

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First paperback edition of this classic, cross-cultural history of women and their relationship to music through the centuries.

Women Composers

Women Composers
Title Women Composers PDF eBook
Author Sylvia Glickman
Publisher G K Hall
Pages
Release 1999
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780783883144

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This is the first comprehensive historical overview of music created by women from the 9th through the 20th centuries. Each volume features 10-25 complete musical scores or complete movements from multi-movement compositions--most of which have been previously inaccessible. Expert scholars provide original essays about the composers, including biographical information, a discussion of the music in historical context, and critical analysis of each work. Entries also include bibliography, a list of works by the composer, and a discography.