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Women Making Music
Bowers
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Description for Women Making Music
Paperback. Editor(s): Bowers, Jane; Tick, Judith. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
"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, ... Read more
"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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Weight
568g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252014703
SKU
V9780252014703
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About Bowers
Jane Bowers is associate professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Women's Studies Encyclopedia, and various journals. Judith Tick is associate professor of music at Northeastern University and the author of American Women Composers before 1870.
Reviews for Women Making Music
Winner of the Pauline Alderman Prize for New Scholarship on Women in Music, International Congress on Women in Music, 1987. Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1987.