Ruth Gipps : anti-modernism, nationalism and difference in English music

Ruth Gipps : anti-modernism, nationalism and difference in English music / Jill Halstead.

Author/creator	Halstead, Jill
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.
Description	xi, 192 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	Gipps, Ruth. Women composers--Great Britain --Biography.

Contents	Themes in life -- Prodigy -- Wars -- Conducting -- Difference -- Themes in music -- Anti-modernism -- Englishness -- Difference.
Abstract	Halstead's review of Gipps' life and career establishes her importance both as a pioneering woman composer and conductor whose worked challenged the attitudes of her time, and as a composer whose musical philosophy was often at odds with mainstream thinking.
Bibliography note	Includes list of R. Gipp's works (pages 163-179), bibliographical references (pages 181-188), and index.
LCCN	2005012384
ISBN	0754601781 (alk. paper)

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Music	Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk	ML410.G383 H35 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold