Analytical essays on music by women composers

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This multiauthor collection, the first of an unprecedented four-volume series of analytical essays on music by women composers from Hildegard of Bingen to the twenty-first century, presents detailed studies of compositions written since 1960 by Ursula Mamlok, Norma Beecroft, Joan Tower, Sofia Gubaidulina, Chen Yi, Kaija Saariaho, Libby Larsen, and Elisabeth Lutyens. Each chapter opens with a brief biographical sketch of the composer written by the editors, followed by an in-depth analysis of a single representative composition linking analytical observations with broader considerations of music history, gender, culture, or hermeneutics.

Title Analytical essays on music by women composers : concert music, 1960-2000 / edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft.
Publisher New York, NY : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2016
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Order, freedom and design. Ursula Mamlok, Panta rhei, third movement (1981) biography
"Twelve tone in my own way" : an analytical study of Ursula Mamlok's Panta rhei, third movement, with some reflections on twelve-tone music in America / Joseph N. Straus
Norma Beecroft, Improvvisazioni concertanti no. 1 (1961) biography
Improvvisazioni concertanti no. 1 by Norma Beecroft : serialism, improvisatory discourse, and the musical avant-garde / Christoph Neidhöfer
Joan Tower, Silver ladders (1986) biography
"Octatonicism," the octatonic scale, and large-scale structure in Joan Tower's Silver ladders / Jonathan W. Bernard -- Gesture, identity and culture. Sofia Gubaidulina, String quartet no. 2 (1987) biography
"Difference inhabits repetition" : Sofia Gubaidulina's string quartet no. 2 / Judy Lochhead
Chen Yi, Symphony no. 2 (1993) biography
The transformative power of musical gestures : cultural translation in Chen Yi's Symphony no. 2 / Nancy Rao -- Music, words and voices. Kaija Saariaho, "The claw of the magnolia," from the Grammar of dreams (1988) biography
Superposition in Kaija Saariaho's "The claw of the magnolia" / John Roeder
Libby Larsen, Chanting towards paradise (1997) biography
Music as a mirror : Libby Larsen's Chanting towards paradise / Brenda Ravenscroft
Elisabeth Lutyens, Essence of our happinesses (1968) biography
This imaginary halfe-nothing : temporality in Elisabeth Lutyens's Essence of our happinesses / Laurel Parsons.
Series Analytical essays on music by women composers
Extent 1 online resource (257 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010719539005171
MARC RECORDS

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