Analytical essays on music by women composers : concert music, 1960-2000 / edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parsons, Laurel, editor.

Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961- editor.

Series:

Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v.3.

Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mamlok, Ursula. Panta rhei.

Mamlok, Ursula.

Beecroft, Norma. Improvvisazioni concertanti--no. 1.

Beecroft, Norma.

Tower, Joan, 1938- Silver ladders.

Tower, Joan.

Gubaidulina, Sofia, 1931-2025. Quartets--violins (2), viola, cello--no. 2.

Gubaidulina, Sofia.

Chen, Yi, 1953- Symphonies--no. 2.

Chen, Yi.

Saariaho, Kaija. Grammaire des rêves.

Saariaho, Kaija.

Larsen, Libby. Chanting to paradise.

Larsen, Libby.

Lutyens, Elisabeth, 1906-1983. Essence of our happinesses.

Lutyens, Elisabeth.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 244 pages : music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Order, freedom and design. Ursula Mamlok, Panta rhei, third movement (1981) biography ; "Twelve tone in my own way" : an analytical study of Ursula Mamlok's Panta rhei, third movement, with some reflections on twelve-tone music in America / Joseph N. Straus ; Norma Beecroft, Improvvisazioni concertanti no. 1 (1961) biography ; Improvvisazioni concertanti no. 1 by Norma Beecroft : serialism, improvisatory discourse, and the musical avant-garde / Christoph Neidhöfer ; Joan Tower, Silver ladders (1986) biography ; "Octatonicism," the octatonic scale, and large-scale structure in Joan Tower's Silver ladders / Jonathan W. Bernard

Gesture, identity and culture. Sofia Gubaidulina, String quartet no. 2 (1987) biography ; "Difference inhabits repetition" : Sofia Gubaidulina's string quartet no. 2 / Judy Lochhead ; Chen Yi, Symphony no. 2 (1993) biography ; The transformative power of musical gestures : cultural translation in Chen Yi's Symphony no. 2 / Nancy Rao

Music, words and voices. Kaija Saariaho, "The claw of the magnolia," from the Grammar of dreams (1988) biography ; Superposition in Kaija Saariaho's "The claw of the magnolia" / John Roeder ; Libby Larsen, Chanting towards paradise (1997) biography ; Music as a mirror : Libby Larsen's Chanting towards paradise / Brenda Ravenscroft ; Elisabeth Lutyens, Essence of our happinesses (1968) biography ; This imaginary halfe-nothing : temporality in Elisabeth Lutyens's Essence of our happinesses / Laurel Parsons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.

ISBN:

9780190236861

0190236868

OCLC:

914339356