Analytical essays on music by women composers : secular & sacred music to 1900 / edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parsons, Laurel, editor.

Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961- editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Series:

Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v. 1.

Analytical essays on music by women composers ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical analysis.

Women composers.

Composition (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : music.

Other Title:

Secular & sacred music to 1900

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction. "Half of Humanity Has Something to Say, Also" / Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft

Early music for voice. Hildegard of Bingen, O Ierusalem aurea civitas (ca. 1150-​1170): Varied repetition in Hildegard's sequence for St. Rupert : O Ierusalem aurea civitas / Jennifer Bain ; Maddalena Casulana, "Per lei pos' in oblio" from Cinta di fior (1570): Finding the "air" in Maddalena Casulana's madrigals / Peter Schubert ; Barbara Strozzi, Appresso ai molli argenti (1659): Consolation amid barbarous misfortune : Barbara Strozzi's Appresso ai molli argenti and the mid-​seventeenth-​century lament / Richard Kolb and Barbara Swanson

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century keyboard music. Élisabeth-​Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Sarabandes from the Suites in A minor (1687) and D minor (1707): In the realm of all the senses : two sarabandes by Élisabeth-​Claude Jacquet de La Guerre / Susan McClary ; Marianna Martines, Sonata in A Major, I (1765): "Zierlichkeit und Genie" : grace and genius in Marianna Martines's Sonata in A major / L. Poundie Burstein

Nineteenth-century Lieder and piano music. Fanny Hensel, "Von dir, mein Lieb, ich scheiden muss" (1841) and "Ich kann wohl manchmal singen" (1846): Fanny Hensel's schematic fantasies, or, The art of beginning / Stephen Rodgers ; Josephine Lang, "An einer Quelle" (1840/​1853) and "Am Morgen" (1840): Josephine Lang's multiple settings of poems by Christian Reinhold Köstlin / Harald Krebs ; Clara Schumann, "Liebst du um Schönheit" (1841): Multiply interrupted structure in Clara Schumann's "Liebst du um Schönheit" / Michael Baker ; Amy Beach, "Phantoms," op. 15, no. 2 (1892). Gapped lines and ghostly flowers in Amy Beach's "Phantoms," op. 15, no. 2 / Edward D. Latham.

Notes:

Companion website includes musical examples and illustrations, full scores for two works, and video and sound recordings; URL, username and password on page xi of text.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780190237059

0190237058

Publisher Number:

40028680865

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.