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Analytical essays on music by women composers concert music 1960-2000

Title
Analytical essays on music by women composers [electronic resource] : concert music 1960-2000 / edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft.
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors
  • Parsons, Laurel.
  • Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961-
Description
1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) : music.
Series Statement
Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v. 3
Uniform Title
Analytical essays on music by women composers (Online)
Subject
  • Mamlok, Ursula
  • Beecroft, Norma
  • Tower, Joan, 1938-
  • Gubaidulina, Sofia, 1931-
  • Chen, Yi, 1953-
  • Saariaho, Kaija
  • Larsen, Libby
  • Lutyens, Elisabeth, 1906-1983
  • Music by women composers > 20th century > Analysis, appreciation
  • Music > 20th century > Analysis, appreciation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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.
LCCN
2015027822
OCLC
ssj0001614770
Title
Analytical essays on music by women composers [electronic resource] : concert music 1960-2000 / edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft.
Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Series
Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v. 3
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Parsons, Laurel.
Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961-
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