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Music and the skillful listener : American women compose the natural world / Denise von Glahn

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Von Glahn, Denise, 1950-
Published
Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 397 pages).
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English.
Contents
A context for composers : within the nature-writing tradition -- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H.H.A. Beach) -- Marion Bauer -- Louise Talma -- Pauline Oliveros -- Joan Tower -- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -- Victoria Bond -- Libby Larsen -- Emily Doolittle -- Conclusions : the repercussions of listening.
Summary
For the author, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In this book, the author explores the relationship between listening and musical composition, focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. The author situates "nature composing" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, the author employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the larger world of contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of nine women composers who seek to understand nature through music.
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ISBN
9780253007933 (electronic bk.)
0253007933 (electronic bk.)
1299106005
9781299106000
9780253006622
0253006627
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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