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

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Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World - Von Glahn, Denise
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Denise 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, similar, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth ...

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Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World 2013, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN

ISBN-13: 9780253006622

Hardcover