Women Making Music The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950

Name: Women Making Music The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950
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ISBN: 9780252014703

ISBN-10: 0252014707

ISBN-13: 9780252014703

Edition: 1987

Authors: Jane Bowers, Judith Tick

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"Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and "look after" the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music. The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents biographies of outstanding performers and composers, as well as analyses of women musicians as a class, and provides examples of music from all periods including medieval chant, Renaissance song, Baroque opera, German lieder, and twentieth-century composition. Unlike most standard historical surveys, the book not only sheds light upon the musical…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University and the author of "Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s". Judith Tick is Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Music at Northeastern University and the author of "Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music".