Analytical essays on music by women composers : Concert music, 1900-1960 / edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft.

"This is the second of four volumes in a multi-authored series of analytical essays on music by women composers from Hildegard of Bingen to the twenty-first century. Volume 2 presents detailed studies of compositions written between 1900 and 1960 by Alma Mahler-Werfel, Rebecca Clarke, Ethel Smy...

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Alternate Title:Concert music, 1900-1960
Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Other Authors: Parsons, Laurel (Editor) Ravenscroft, Brenda, 1961- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Analytical essays on music by women composers ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft
  • Part 1. Music for Voice. Alma Mahler-Werfel, "Licht in der Nacht" (1901) : Searching for the Light : Harmonic Cycles and Feedback Loops in Alma Mahler-Werfel's "Licht in der Nacht" / Kenneth M. Smith ; Rebecca Clarke, "Tiger, Tiger" (1933) : Extended Tonality and Text-Setting in Rebecca Clarke's "Tiger, Tiger" / Zachary Bernstein ; Ethel Smyth, The Boatswain's Mate (1913-1914) : A Wrinkle? Gender and Motive in Ethel Smyth's The Boatswain's Mate / Rachel Lumsden ; Ruth Crawford, Chants for Women's Chorus (1930) : "Not yet accepted as singing" : Ruth Crawford's "To An Angel" from Chants for Women's Chorus / Ellie M. Hisama
  • Part 2. Instrumental Music. Florence B. Price, Piano Sonata in E minor (1932) : Culture and Craft in Florence Price's Piano Sonata in E minor (First Movement) / Horace J. Maxile, Jr. ; Galina Ustvolskaya, Sonata for Violin and Piano (1952) : Motivic Patterns, Repetition, and Formal Structures in Galina Ustvolskaya's Sonata for Violin and Piano / Tim Sullivan ; J. M. Beyer, String Quartet no. 2 (1933-34) : Imagination and Method : J. M. Beyer's String Quartet no. 2 / Marguerite Boland ; Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Sinfonia da Pacifica (1952-53) : Avant-garde or Postmodern? The Melody-Rhythm Concept in Peggy Glanville-Hicks's Sinfonia da Pacifica / Victoria Rogers.