Companion website includes musical examples and illustrations, full scores for two works, and video and sound recordings; URL, username and password on page xi of text. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction. 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. 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 -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century keyboard music. Elisabeth-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 Elisabeth-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 -- 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 Kostlin / Harald Krebs ; Clara Schumann, "Liebst du um Schonheit" (1841): Multiply interrupted structure in Clara Schumann's "Liebst du um Schonheit" / 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.
Series:
Analytical essays on music by women composers ; volume 1
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.