Author: James R. BriscoePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253212962
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Works by women composers, including Francesca Caccini, Fanny Mendelssohn, Ethel Smyth, [et al]
Selected compositions for piano
Author: Cécile ChaminadePublisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780757982286
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kalmus offers this collection including seventeen piano solos by the French female composer, Cecile Chaminade. Her work is known for the beauty of the melodic lines and harmonic structure.
Gender and the Musical Canon
Author: Marcia J. CitronPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069161
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A classic in gender studies in music Marcia J. Citron's comprehensive, balanced work lays a broad foundation for the study of women composers and their music. Drawing on a diverse body of feminist and interdisciplinary theory, Citron shows how the western art canon is not intellectually pure but the result of a complex mixture of attitudes, practices, and interests that often go unacknowledged and unchallenged. Winner of the Pauline Alderman Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music, Gender and the Musical Canon explores important elements of canon formation, such as notions of creativity, professionalism, and reception. Citron surveys the institutions of power, from performing organizations and the academy to critics and the publishing and recording industries, that affect what goes into the canon and what is kept out. She also documents the nurturing role played by women, including mothers, in cultivating female composers. In a new introduction, she assesses the book's reception by composers and critics, especially the reactions to her controversial reading of Cécile Chaminade's sonata for piano. A key volume in establishing how the concepts and assumptions that form the western art music canon affect female composers and their music, Gender and the Musical Canon also reveals how these dynamics underpin many of the major issues that affect musicology as a discipline.
Musical Agency and the Social Listener
Author: Cora S. PalfyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000463338
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Music as a narrative drama is an intriguing idea, which has captured explicit music theoretical attention since the nineteenth century. Investigations into narrative characters or personae has evolved into a sub-field—musical agency. In this book, Palfy contends that music has the potential to engage us in social processes and that those processes can be experienced as a social interaction with a musical agent. She explores the overlap between the psychological processes in which we participate in order to understand and engage with people, and those we engage in when we listen to music. Thinking of musical agency as a form of social process is quite different from existing theoretical frameworks for agency. It implies that we come to musical analysis by way of intuition—that our ideas are already partially formed based on our experience of the piece (and what it makes us feel or how it makes us sense it as any other) when we choose to analyze and interpret it. Palfy’s focus on social processes is a very effective way to pinpoint when and why it is that our attention is captured and engaged by musical agents.
Favorite piano classics
Author: Ronald HerderPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486291529
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Treasury of 83 best-loved pieces in authoritative editions: Beethoven's Für Elise, Chopin's "Minute" Waltz and Polonaise "Militaire," Debussy's Clair de Lune, Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3, Mozart's Turkish Rondo, Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess, plus works by Grieg, Granados, Haydn, Satie, Tchaikovsky, and many more. Most pieces fairly brief, well within reach of intermediate players.
NHAMW
Author: James R. BriscoePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253216830
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
"This anthology of musical scores is a new edition of a text that has been widely used in courses in women's music. James R. Briscoe's New Historical Anthology compiles fifty-five compositions by forty-six women composers from the ancient Greeks to the present. Each work is introduced by an informative essay by a specialist in the field, with recommendations for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.
Chaminade, Selected Compositions
Author: Cécile ChaminadePublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457470799
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Includes seventeen piano solos by the French female composer Cécile Chaminade. Her work is known for the beauty of the melodic lines and harmonic structure. Titles: * Sérénade, Op. 29 * Minuetto, Op. 23 * Air de Ballet, Op. 30 * Pas des Amphores, Op. 37, No. 2 * Callirhoë, Op. 37, No. 4 * Lolita, Op. 54 * Scarf Fance, Op. 37, No. 3 * Pièce Romantique, Op. 9, No. 1 * Gavotte, Op. 9, No. 2 * Pierrette, Op. 41 * La Lisonjera, Op. 50 * La Morena, Op. 67 * Les Sylvains, Op. 60 * Arabesque, Op. 61 * Valse-Caprice, Op. 33 * Danse Pastorale, Op. 37, No. 5 * Arlequine, Op. 53 Kalmus Editions are primarily reprints of Urtext Editions, reasonably priced and readily available. They are a must for students, teachers, and performers.
Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music
Author: Lesley A. WrightPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317081641
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors include scholars and active performers who see performance not as an independent activity but as a practice enriched by a wealth of historical and analytical approaches. To underline the usefulness of contextual understanding for performance, each author highlights the choices performers must confront with examples drawn from particular repertoires and composers. Topics explored include editorial practice, the use of early recordings, emergent disciplines such as analysis-and-performance, and traditions passed down from teacher to student. Themes that emerge demonstrate the importance of editions as a form of communication, the challenges of notation, the significance of detail and of deeper continuity, the importance of performing and teaching traditions, and the influence of cross disciplinary frameworks. A link to a set of performed examples on the frenchpianomusic.com website allows readers to hear and compare performances and interpretations of the music discussed. The volume will appeal to musicologists and analysts interested in performance, performers, students, and piano teachers.
A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers
Author: Pamela Y. DeesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313017034
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers, A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century. The work also features biographies and extensive bibliographical information for each composer. Arranged alphabetically by composer into categories including single works, collections, and anthologies, the music is also described in terms of grade level, genre, mood, style characteristics, and technical requirements, and ranges in difficulty from late elementary to virtuoso concert repertoire. Far too many teachers, students, professional musicians, and audiences are unaware of the contributions made by women in music, and of the beauty and merit of their specific compositions. This reference work provides an invaluable addition to the current literature.
All Music Guide to Classical Music
Author: Chris WoodstraPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308650
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
Book Description
Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.
