Life and Music of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), a Woman Composer of the Victorian Era [electronic resource] : A Critical Assessment of Her Achievement

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham-Jones, Ian.

Graham-Jones, Ian, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Alice Mary, 1839-1884--Criticism and interpretation.

Women composers--England--19th century--Biography.

Women composers--19th century--England--Biography.

Women composers.

Smith, Alice Mary.

Local Subjects:

Smith, Alice Mary, 1839-1884--Criticism and interpretation.

Women composers--England--19th century--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a time when women were thought to succeed only in composing drawing-room songs or light-weight piano pieces, Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884) wrote by far the greatest number of larger-scale art works of any British woman composer in the nineteenth century. She was most probably the first woman to have written - and had performed - a symphony, composed in 1863 at the age of twenty-four. Two of her six concert overtures were regularly performed by distinguished conductors of the time, and her four cantatas for choir and orchestra achieved some popularity in the last years of her short life. This

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Graham Jones ISBN 0-7734-2070-3; Introduction; Chapter 1; Notes (Ch.1); Chapter 2; Notes (Ch.2); Plates; Chapter 3; Notes (Ch.3); Chapter 4; Notes (Ch.4); Chapter 5; Notes (Ch.5); Chapter 6; Notes (Ch.6); Chapter 7; Notes (Ch.7); Appendices; A: List of works; B: List of performances; C: Glossary of people; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-2070-3

OCLC:

780444586