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.

Woman in Music

Woman in Music
Title Woman in Music PDF eBook
Author George Putnam Upton
Publisher
Pages 358
Release 1886
Genre Composers
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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The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers

The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
Title The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers PDF eBook
Author Julie Anne Sadie
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 604
Release 1995
Genre Music
ISBN 9780393034875

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Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.

The Heart of a Woman

The Heart of a Woman
Title The Heart of a Woman PDF eBook
Author Rae Linda Brown
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 489
Release 2020-06-22
Genre Music
ISBN 0252052110

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Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works. Price's twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price's major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.

Who Is Florence Price?

Who Is Florence Price?
Title Who Is Florence Price? PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Schirmer Trade Books
Pages 48
Release 2021-09-30
Genre
ISBN 9781736533406

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Florence loved her mother's piano playing and wanted to be just like her. When she was just four years old she played her first piano concert and as she grew up she studied and wrote music hoping one day to hear her own music performed by an orchestra. This is the story of a brilliant musician who prevailed against race and gender prejudices to become the first Black woman to be recognised as a symphonic composer and be performed by a major American orchestra in 1933.