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Music and the skillful listener : American women compose the natural world / Denise von Glahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Von Glahn, Denise, 1950-
- Series:
- Music, Nature, Place
- Music, nature, place
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women composers--United States.
- Women composers.
- Music by women composers--History and criticism.
- Music by women composers.
- Nature in music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. ; Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim ""be seen and not heard."" In Skillful Listeners, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world:Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates ""nature composing"" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their litera
- Contents:
- A context for composers : within the nature-writing tradition
- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H.H.A. Beach)
- Marion Bauer
- Louise Talma
- Pauline Oliveros
- Joan Tower
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
- Victoria Bond
- Libby Larsen
- Emily Doolittle
- Conclusions : the repercussions of listening.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253007933
- 0253007933
- 9781299106000
- 1299106005
- OCLC:
- 828424303
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