The composer, herself : contemporary snapshots of the creative process / Linda Kouvaras, Natalie Williams, Maria Grenfell, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kouvaras, Linda Ioanna, editor.

Williams, Natalie, 1977- editor.

Grenfell, Maria, 1969- editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women composers.

Composition (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 423 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024]

Contents:

1. Introduction: The 'Post-Feminist' Moment in Contemporary Classical Music; Lina Kouvaras

Part 1: Activist Musical Projects and Intersectional C ollaborations

2. Borrowing from the Bard: Ruler of the Hive; Melody Eotvos

3. Letters to Clara: A Contemporary Composer's Homage to a Women Pioneer; Natalie Williams

4. Carnivals of Voice, Musical Playgrounds: Music from Text in Works of Andree Greenwell; Andree Greenwell

5. Holding, Handling, Moulding and Setting the Inner Thoughts of Another in Hidden Thoughts; Katy Abbott

6. Walking the Line: Emancipating the Complex Female Voice in Recent Operas; Missy Mazzoli

7. Democracy and Collective Composition; Cathy Milliken

8.Harmonia Mundi: Creating a New Work of Music Theatre to speak to the Current World Chaos; Judith Clingan

9. Blocking Out Noise: Metamorphosis and Identity in the Recent Chamber Music of Vivian Fung; Vivian Fung

10. An overview of My Compositional Practice and Collaborations into China; Rachel Walker

11. Luck, Grief, Hospitality: Re-Routing Power Relationships in Music; Liza Lim

12. In Search of the Artistic Moment: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and 'The Space Between' from an Australian Screen

Composer's Perspective; Yantra De Vilder

Part 2: Philosophical and Phenomenological Dimensions of Time

13. Finding Time, Finding Space: An Autoethnography of Compositional Praxis; Christine mcCombe

14. A Compositional Life in Time: The Recent Operas of Elena Kats-Chernin; Elena Kats-Chernin

15. Einstein's Dream: At the Threshold between Science and Art; Cindy McTee

16. The Pendulum Process: Point of Balance; Mary Finsterer

17. Gravity and Gravitas: Time, Passion, and Inevitability in the Music of Shulamit Ran; Shulamit Ran

18. Low Frequency as Concept in the Music of Cat Hope; Cat Hope

19. A Drone Opera Recast: Threat, Allure, Promise; Susan Frykberg

Part 3: Music Awakenings: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward

20: Composing the Rolls-Royce: A Composer's Adventures in Orchestral Composition; Maria Grenfell

21.Finding a Reason: A Composer's Pathway Forged through Social Justice Advocacy; Kathleen McGuire

22.'I'm A Type Triple-A Composer!' Augusta Read Thomas

23. How My Music is Made: 'Tantot Libre, Tantot Recherche'; Nicola LeFanu

25. The Mirror: A Novel in Reflections; Lera Auerbach

26.Sometimes Dreams do Come True: Thea Musgrave's Exploration of Dramatic-Abstract Forms in her Instrumental Music;

27. My Awakening as a Composer: No Adjective; Judith Lang, Zaimont

28. Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: COMPOSER, HERSELF.

ISBN:

9783031239229

3031239229

Publisher Number:

99995341996

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