Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252014707 ISBN 13: 9780252014703

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1987

Synopsis

"Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and "look after" the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music.
 
The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents biographies of outstanding performers and composers, as well as analyses of women musicians as a class, and provides examples of music from all periods including medieval chant, Renaissance song, Baroque opera, German lieder, and twentieth-century composition. Unlike most standard historical surveys, the book not only sheds light upon the musical achievements of women, it also illuminates the historical contexts that shaped and defined those achievements.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Bowers is associate professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Women's Studies Encyclopedia, and various journals. Judith Tick is associate professor of music at Northeastern University and the author of American Women Composers before 1870.
 

From Library Journal:

This volume joins Adrienne Fried Block and Carol Neuls-Bates's bibliography Women in American Music ( LJ 11/15/79) and Aaron I. Cohen's International Encyclopedia of Women Composers ( LJ 1/15/82). Bowers and Tick are joined by a dozen other scholars in a sound, richly documented musicological venture. A history of women composers has not been written before because ``musicologists have paid little attention to the sociology of music.'' But for the absence of a chapter on minority composers, the point is addressed here. The major figures, such as Ethel Smyth, Clara Schumann, and Barbara Strozzi have chapters to themselves, with others grouped according to historical and geographic considerations. A valuable publication. Dominique-Rene de Lerma, Morgan State Univ., Music Dept., Baltimore, Md.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0252014707
• ISBN 13: 9780252014703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Bowers Jane, Tick Judith