The Heart of a Woman
Title | The Heart of a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Rae Linda Brown |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2020-06-22 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0252052110 |
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.
The Songs of Fanny Hensel
Title | The Songs of Fanny Hensel PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Rodgers |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190919582 |
Fanny Hensel created some of the most imaginative and original music of her era, making her arguably the most gifted female composer of the nineteenth century. While Hensel has finally stepped out of the shadow of her famous brother, Felix Mendelssohn, as scholars have begun to study her life and writings, her music has remained surprisingly underexamined. This collection places Hensel's music at the center, focusing on the genre that not only made up more than half of her creative output but also, as Hensel herself put it, "suits her best": song. In eleven new essays, leading scholars in the fields of music theory and musicology consider Hensel's songs from a wide range of angles, covering topics such as Hensel's fascination with particular poets and poetic themes; her innovative harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and textual strategies; and her connection to larger literary and musical trends. The chapters also provide insight into Hensel's efforts to break free from the constraints placed on her as a woman and her place in the larger history of the nineteenth-century Lied. Drawing on diverse biographical, historical, cultural, and musical contexts for their detailed discussions of Hensel's songs, the authors underline Hensel's historical importance and deepen our understanding and appreciation of her compositions. This volume, in short, finally gives Fanny Hensel and her songs the stage that they deserve.
Music for Life
Title | Music for Life PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Maddocks |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 057132939X |
How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical context, discussing omissions, suggesting alternatives and always putting the music first.
Florence Mills
Title | Florence Mills PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Egan |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780810850071 |
This biography reveals the lost history of the life of the 1920s Black female international superstar. Mills was lionized by the crowned heads in Europe and opened doors for generations of Black female stars from Lena Horne to Diana Ross. Although her career and shows changed the nature of Black entertainment, and thereby the wider American popular culture, she was largely forgotten in later years. Anyone who wants to understand the history of Black entertainment from Bert Williams to Michael Jackson and, by implication, the history of American popular culture, needs to understand the ways in which Florence Mills changed the rules forever.
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work
Title | Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Kish Sklar |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780300072853 |
One of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book is also a political history of the United States during a period of transforming change, when women worked to end the abuses of unregulated industrial capitalism. This first of a two-volume series covers the first 40 years of Florence Kelley's life. 53 illustrations.
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 |
Black Women Composers
Title | Black Women Composers PDF eBook |
Author | Mildred Denby Green |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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