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Analytical essays on music by women composers : secular & sacred music to 1900 /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Parsons, Laurel (Editor ), Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Colección:Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v. 1.
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  • Introduction. "Half of Humanity Has Something to Say, Also" / Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft
  • 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. 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
  • 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.