| Contents |
Introduction / Jane Bowers, Judith Tick -- "Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne": the cloistered musician in the Middle Ages / Ann Bagnall Yardley -- Jougleresses and Trobairitz: secular musicians in medieval France / Maria V. Coldwell -- Women singers and women's songs in fifteenth-century Italy / Howard Mayer Brown -- Courtesans, muses, or musicians? Professional women musicians in sixteenth-century Italy / Anthony Newcomb -- The emergence of women composers in Italy, 1566-1700 ; Appendix: Compositions by Italian women published 1566-1700 / Jane Bowers -- The voice of Barbara Strozzi / Ellen Rosand -- Musiciennes of the ancien régime / Julie Anne Sadie -- Women and the Lied, 1775-1850 / Marcia J. Citron -- Clara Schumann / Nancy B. Reich -- Luise Adolpha Le Beau: composer in late nineteenth-century Germany / Judith E. Olson -- "Shout, shout, up with your song!" Dame Ethel Smyth and the changing role of the British woman composer / Jane A. Bernstein -- Passed away is the piano girl: changes in American musical life, 1870-1900 / Judith Tick -- Women's orchestras in the United States, 1925-45 / Carol Neuls-Bates -- Ruth Crawford Seeger ; Appendix I: Oeuvre of Ruth Crawford Seeger ; Appendix II: Discography of works by Ruth Crawford Seeger / Matilda Gaume. |
| Abstract |
"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. This book 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. Also includes information on Amy (Mrs. H.H.) Beach, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Hildegarde of Bingen, Isabella Leonarda, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Bibliography note | "Discography of works by Ruth Crawford Seeger": page 388. |
| LCCN | 85008642 |
| ISBN | 0252012046 (alk. paper) |
