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Women Composers


Women Composers
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Author : Susan Stern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

Women Composers written by Susan Stern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Bibliografía de mujeres compositoras de música clásica. Se circunscribe a Estados Unidos, Canadá, Inglaterra, Bélgica, Francia, Alemania Occidental, Austria, Holanda, Suiza e Italia. Se divide en cuatro partes: 1) bibliografía sobre el tema. 2) biobibliografía de las compositoras. 3) índice alfabético de compositoras. 4) índice suplementario de bibliografías.



The Cambridge Companion To Women Composers


The Cambridge Companion To Women Composers
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Author : Matthew Head
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-30

The Cambridge Companion To Women Composers written by Matthew Head and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with Music categories.


Exploring a diverse, distinguished repertoire, and transcending the rhetoric of neglect, this book transforms understanding of women composers.



Women Composers Of Classical Music


Women Composers Of Classical Music
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Author : Mary F. McVicker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-02-14

Women Composers Of Classical Music written by Mary F. McVicker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with Music categories.


As early as the 1500s, a surprising number of women have composed classical music. Many were successful, finding venues for both publishing and performing their music; others found the social barriers for women impossible to overcome. This book provides access to these composers, both well known and obscure. Arranged chronologically by era, the profiles are further divided into countries. For each female composer within a country, a brief biographical sketch is provided, as well as a description of her body of work. This text also includes an extensive timeline of operatic works by female composers.



International Encyclopedia Of Women Composers


International Encyclopedia Of Women Composers
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Author : Aaron I. Cohen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

International Encyclopedia Of Women Composers written by Aaron I. Cohen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Music categories.




Women Composers


Women Composers
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Author : Diane Jezic
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 1994

Women Composers written by Diane Jezic and has been published by Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Though rarely included in traditional music history, women have a remarkable tradition as composers of Western music. This book brings together musical and biographical material on twenty-five women, from the eleventh through the twentieth centuries. Each chapter focuses on one composer, providing an introduction to her life, an analysis of her music, a checklist of her works, and a bibliography. Extensive appendices include a historical outline showing female composers in relation to their more famous male contemporaries by period and genre, and suggestions for further readings and recordings.



Women Composers


Women Composers
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Author : Martha Furman Schleifer
language : en
Publisher: G. K. Hall
Release Date : 1998

Women Composers written by Martha Furman Schleifer and has been published by G. K. Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Music categories.


The composers included in Volume 4 of "Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, Vocal Music," were born between 1700 and 1799. Some of the women found in Volume 4 are also represented in Volumes 3 (keyboard) and 5 (large and small instrumental ensembles). Unlike most of the composers in Volumes 1 and 2 who belonged to religious orders or noble families, those in the 18th-century volumes are of secular background. Many are members of musical families that include mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters-in-law of other composers and musicians. The women represented in this volume performed and composed in a variety of vocal forms and genres. Volume 4 includes sixty-five works by twenty-three composers from eleven countries: the American colonies, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, and Martinique. Two composers lived in the American colonies. Maria Eicher reached a position of prominence within Georg Conrad Beissel's Ephrata Cloister. Five main collections of music manuscripts were created there; one of the most important, known as the "Turtel-Taube" (Turtle Dove), contains twelve hymns by Maria Eicher. The colonies also became the home of Mary Ann Wrighten Pownall, nee Matthews, one of the group of English actress-singers who composed songs. After a successful career under her first married name (Wrighten) in England she came to America where she was one of the first female published songwriters. As a performer she also participated in some of the earliest American performances of opera and oratorio excerpts from works of Handel, Haydn, and Gluck. About half of her surviving songs were published in England as Mrs. Wrighten; fiveAmerican songs are under the name Mrs. Pownall. One of each is included in this volume. The Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, nee Spencer, was a noblewoman of high rank who lived at the center of a circle of writers, artists, and politicians. Her only extant music, the songs "I Have A Silent Sorrow Here" (written for a play by R. B. Sheridan) and "Sweet Is the Vale," were reissued in many versions and arrangements both in Great Britain and America, evidence of their great popularity. Margaret Essex is known today only by her published works, which span a twelve-year period at the turn of the 19th century. They comprise thirteen publications, all of them chamber works for domestic use. Mrs. Jordan, nee Dorothea Bland, was a successful actress-singer who made her debut in Dublin and spent most of her career in London. She also composed songs, including one of the most popular songs in the English language, "The Blue Bell of Scotland." This version is thought to be the earliest available. The most published of the English singer-composers was Miss Abrams. She was from a family of musicians of Jewish descent. Her sisters, Theodosia and Eliza, were well-known singers and performed in concerts with her. Abrams appeared with Haydn and in the series organized by Johann Peter Salomon. Her publications include songs in both English and Italian, examples of which are included. Haydn served as a connection among several of the 18thcentury composers in this volume. Composer-poet, Anne Home Hunter, wrote texts for Haydn for some of his finest songs. She was an early figure in the Scottish national song movement of the late-18thcentury, and also wrote several texts to pre-existingmelodies. Haydn taught Marianna Martines daily for three years and received free board in Vienna from her family in exchange for these lessons. She acquired the skill of" bel canto" singing and composition from Nicolo Porpora, and absorbed the early Classical style through the teaching of Johann Adolf Hasse. Martines composed over 200 works, and of these, sixty-nine are known to have survived. "La tempesta" (1778), is an Italian-style chamber cantata comprised of two recitatives and two arias for soprano and ensemble. One aria is reproduced here. German and Austrian born composers included in Volume 4 are Madame Mara, Sophie Westenholz, Louise Reichardt, Emilie Zurnsteeg, and Bettine von Arnim. Mara, the first German opera star, was important primarily as a great singer. Like many famous singers, she published a few works which became popular partly on the strength of her fame as a performer. She traveled to Vienna, Paris, and London, where she was particularly noted for her brilliant performances in Handel's works. She also appeared in Salomon's and other subscription concerts in the 1790s. Say Can You Deny Me illustrates the English popular song of the 1790s. The version represented here has the type of orchestral accompaniment that the song would have had in theatre performances or subscription concerts. Sophie Westenholz was a court musician and composer for over forty years, and had great success as a singer and pianist. Although some of her music was published in her lifetime, most of it exists only in manuscript. Her work as a composer has received little previous recognition. She contributed to the development of the late-18thand early-19th century lied at a time when artsongs for solo voice and piano were becoming distinguished from the folksong style of writing. Her three songs illustrate many characteristics of early Romanticism. Louise Reichardt was the daughter of two musicians, Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Juliane Reichardt, nee Benda (see Vol. 3). Her father took scant interest in her musical education, which was casual and unorganized. Nonetheless, her creative talents were so outstanding that a number of her songs were included in a collection from 1800 titled: "Deutsche Lieder von Johann Friedrich Reichardt und dessen Tochter Luise Reichardt "(German songs by Johann Friedrich Reichardt and his daughter Luise Reichardt). Her contributions to this collaborative effort, identified by her initials, were the first of over ninety published vocal compositions which appeared during her lifetime. They were favorably received by critics and the public. Emilie Zumsteeg was born in Stuttgart in 1796, the daughter of Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760-1802) the well-known composer of opera, lieder, and ballads. She was beloved in Wurttemberg as a singer, pianist, conductor, and extraordinary teacher. She was responsible for preparing the choruses for many first performances in Stuttgart of the great oratorios of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. Emilie Zumsteeg's compositions included lieder for voice and piano or voice with guitar, music for solo piano, choral settings for three, four, and six voices, a cantata, an overture for orchestra, and variations for flute and harp. As a composer Zumsteeg may be described as a bridge between the early German Romantic composers, including her father Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, Conradin Kreutzer, Friedrich Silcher, andFranz Schubert, and the Romantic school of Robert Schumann. Bettine von Arnim, while known primarily as an author of novels based on her correspondence with prominent Romantic figures such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was also a composer. As a young woman she pursued music studies and set to music texts of Goethe, Achim von Arnim (whom she married in 1811), and her brother, Clemens Brentano. Fewer than a dozen songs were published during her lifetime, but her manuscripts attest to a wealth of musical ideas. Some songs have appeared in heavily edited versions. Corona Schroter, born in Poland into a musical family, spent a significant part of her life in Germany. A virtuosa singer and actress, her close association with Goethe led her to set some of his poetry for her lieder. Also born in Poland, Maria Szymanowska (born Marianna Agata Wolowska), was a virtuosa pianist and composer of over 100 pieces, mostly for the piano. Szymanowska's twenty-two songs based on sentimental or heroic texts belong to the genre of the romance. Her works appear in all of the eighteenth-century volumes in this series. Marie Teresa Agnesi, the only Italian woman of this period known to have composed opera seria, is represented by an accompanied aria in this volume and by a keyboard sonata in Volume 3. Although Isabella Colbran was born in Spain, she spent much of her successful operatic career in Italy. Four of her songs are presented here. Dutch composer Josina Anna Petronella van Boetzelaer, nee van Aerssen, closely associated with the musical royalty in the House of Orange, concentrated on writing vocal music. Her opus 2 is dedicated to Maria Teresa Agnesi. The young Parisian musician, Sophie Gail(nee Edme-Sophie Garre), impressed family friends with her talents as a pianist, singer, and composer, as she would later impress the French musical milieu. She was a successful performer and composer of songs and opera. Born in Martinique, Pauline Duchambge was a French Creole pianist, singer, and composer. She studied composition in Paris with Daniel Auber, Luigi Cherubini, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. Duchambge wrote over 300 songs, setting many texts by the poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, who was her lifelong friend. Madame Louis, French pianist and composer, published six keyboard sonatas and a two-act opera comique. Several arias from this opera appear here; the "Overture" is in Volume 5. A leading singer with the "Academie royale de musique" (the Paris Opera), Henriette-Adelaide de Villars, dite Beaumesnil, may have written music during her singing career. However, it was only after her retirement from the stage that her compositions were actually performed and published. Between 1781 and 1792, she wrote at least three short operas and an oratorio, of which only the score of her one-act opera "Tibulle et Delie "appears to have survived. Amelie-Julie Candeille, an actress, singer, playwright, pianist, harpist, composer, novelist, and music teacher made her debuts at the Paris Opera and Comedie Francaise while in her teens. She performed her own piano concerto at the "Concert Spirituel." Her first play w



Women Composers And Songwriters


Women Composers And Songwriters
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Author : Charles E. Claghorn
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1996-08-08

Women Composers And Songwriters written by Charles E. Claghorn and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Updates and expands Claghorn's previous book, Women Composers and Hymnists (Scarecrow, 1984), presenting succinct biographies for female composers in both secular and sacred music.



Women Composers


Women Composers
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Author : Miriam Stewart-Green
language : en
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
Release Date : 1980

Women Composers written by Miriam Stewart-Green and has been published by Hall Reference Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography & Autobiography categories.




The Norton Grove Dictionary Of Women Composers


The Norton Grove Dictionary Of Women Composers
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Author : Julie Anne Sadie
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1994

The Norton Grove Dictionary Of Women Composers written by Julie Anne Sadie and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.


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



Directory Of American Women Composers


Directory Of American Women Composers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

Directory Of American Women Composers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Composers categories.