| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) |
| Series |
Analytical essays on music by women composers ; volume 1 |
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Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v. 1
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| Contents |
Introduction: "Half of Humanity Has Something to Say, Also" / Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft -- Part I, Early music for voice. Hildegard of Bingen, O Ierusalem aurea civitas (ca. 1150-1170): Varied repetition in Hildegard's sequence for St. Rupert : O Ierusalem aurea civitas / Jennifer Bain. Maddalena Casulana, "Per lei pos' in oblio" from Cinta di fior (1570): Finding the "air" in Maddalena Casulana's madrigals / Peter Schubert. Barbara Strozzi, Appresso ai molli argenti (1659): Consolation amid barbarous misfortune : Barbara Strozzi's Appresso ai molli argenti and the mid-seventeenth-century lament / Richard Kolb and Barbara Swanson -- Part II, Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century keyboard music. Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Sarabandes from the Suites in A minor (1687) and D minor (1707): In the realm of all the senses : two sarabandes by Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre / Susan McClary. Marianna Martines, Sonata in A Major, I (1765): "Zierlichkeit und Genie" : grace and genius in Marianna Martines's Sonata in A major / L. Poundie Burstein -- Part III, Nineteenth-century Lieder and piano music. Fanny Hensel, "Von dir, mein Lieb, ich scheiden muss" (1841) and "Ich kann wohl manchmal singen" (1846): Fanny Hensel's schematic fantasies, or, The art of beginning / Stephen Rodgers. Josephine Lang, "An einer Quelle" (1840/1853) and "Am Morgen" (1840): Josephine Lang's multiple settings of poems by Christian Reinhold Köstlin / Harald Krebs. Clara Schumann, "Liebst du um Schönheit" (1841): Multiply interrupted structure in Clara Schumann's "Liebst du um Schönheit" / Michael Baker. Amy Beach, "Phantoms," op. 15, no. 2 (1892). Gapped lines and ghostly flowers in Amy Beach's "Phantoms," op. 15, no. 2 / Edward D. Latham |
| Summary |
This collection of in-depth analytical essays celebrates music by female composers from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. The essays, written by leading music theorists and musicologists, examine select compositions in detail, collectively establishing a foundation for new scholarly research into outstanding compositions created by women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 15, 2018) |
| Subject |
Musical analysis -- Music collections.
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Women composers.
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Composition (Music)
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Women composers.
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Composition (Music)
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Musical analysis.
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| Genre/Form |
Collections.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parsons, Laurel, editor
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Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961- editor
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| ISBN |
9780190237059 |
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0190237058 |
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9780190237035 |
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0190237031 |
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