Research Catalog

Title

Analytical essays on music by women composers [electronic resource] : secular & sacred music to 1900 / edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Details

Additional Authors

• Parsons, Laurel.
• Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961-

Description

1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : music.

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.

Series Statement

Analytical essays on music by women composers ; volume 1

Uniform Title

• Analytical essays on music by women composers (Online)
• Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v. 1.

Alternative Title

Secular & sacred music to 1900

Subject

• Music by women composers > Analysis, appreciation
• Music > Analysis, appreciation

Note

• Companion website includes musical examples and illustrations, full scores for two works, and video and sound recordings; URL, username and password on page xi of text.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

LCCN

2018560225

OCLC

ssj0002152082

Title

Analytical essays on music by women composers [electronic resource] : secular & sacred music to 1900 / edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft.

Imprint

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Series

Analytical essays on music by women composers ; volume 1

Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Parsons, Laurel.

Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961-