Analytical essays on music by women composers. Volume 1, Secular & sacred music to 1900 / Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft

Author: Parsons, Laurel
Additional Titles: Secular & sacred music to 1900
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Additional Creators: Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961-

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: "Half of Humanity Has Something to Say, Also" / Brenda Ravenscroft -- pt. I EARLY MUSIC FOR VOICE -- ch. 2 Hildegard of Bingen, O lerusalem aurea civitas (ca. 1150-1170) -- Varied Repetition in Hildegard's Sequence for St. Rupert: O Ierusalem aurea civitas / Jennifer Bain -- ch. 3 Maddalena Casulana, "Per lei pos' in oblio" from Cinta di fior (1570) -- Finding the "Air" in Maddalena Casulana's Madrigals / Peter Schubert -- ch. 4 Barbara Strozzi, Appresso at molli argenti (1659) -- Consolation amid Barbarous Misfortune: Barbara Strozzf s Appresso ai molli argenti and the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Lament / Barbara Swanson -- pt. II SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY KEYBOARD MUSIC -- ch. 5 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 Eilisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre / Susan McClary -- ch. 6 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 -- pt. III NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIEDER AND PIANO MUSIC -- ch. 7 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 -- ch. 8 Josephine Lang, "An einer Quelle" (1840/1853) and "Am Morgen" (1840) -- Josephine Lang's Multiple Settings of Poems by Christian Reinhold Kostlin / Harold Krebs -- ch. 9 Clara Schumann, "Liebst du urn Schonheit" (1841) -- Multiply Interrupted Structure in Clara Schumann's "Liebst du urn Schonheit" / Michael Baker -- ch. 10 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.

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ISBN

9780190237059 (ebook)

Audience Notes

Specialized.

Note

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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