"Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and "look after" the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music. The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents biographies of outstanding performers and composers, as well as analyses of women musicians as a class, and provides examples of music from all periods including medieval chant, ...
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"Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and "look after" the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music. The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents biographies of outstanding performers and composers, as well as analyses of women musicians as a class, and provides examples of music from all periods including medieval chant, Renaissance song, Baroque opera, German lieder, and twentieth-century composition. Unlike most standard historical surveys, the book not only sheds light upon the musical achievements of women, it also illuminates the historical contexts that shaped and defined those achievements.
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VG (Ex-library, with spine label & bookplate, some marks, no dj. ) Brown cloth, dark brown title block on spine, 409 pp., 22 BW plates, 23 BW figures, 7 tables. A collection of 12 essays on the topic: "Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne": the cloistered musician in the Middle Ages / Ann Bagnall Yardley--Jougleresses and Trobairitz: secular musicians in medieval France / Maria V. Coldwell--Women singers and women's songs in fifteenth-century Italy / Howard Mayer Brown--Courtesans, muses, or musicians? Professional women musicians in sixteenth-century Italy / Anthony Newcomb--The emergence of women composers in Italy, 1566-1700--Appendix: Compositions by Italian women Published 1566-1700 / Jane Bowers--Voice of Barbara Strozzi / Ellen Rosand--Musiciennes of the ancien regime / Julie Anne Sadie--Women and the Lied, 1775-1850 / Marcia J. Citron--Clara Schumann / Nancy B. Reich--Luise Adolpha Le Beau: composer in late nineteenth-century Germany / Judith E. Olson--"Shout, shout, up with your song! " Dame Ethel Smyth and the changing role of the British woman composer / Jane A. Bernstein--Passed away is the piano girl: changes in American musical life, 1870-1900 / Judith Tick--Women's orchestras in the United States, 1925-45 / Carol Neuls-Bates--Ruth Crawford Seeger--Appendix I: Oeuvre of Ruth Crawford Seeger--Appendix II: Discography of works by Ruth Crawford Seeger / MatildaGaume.