Sounds and sweet airs : the forgotten women of classical music / Anna Beer.

By: Beer, Anna R, 1964- [author.]
Language: Unknown language code Publisher: London, England : Oneworld Publications, [2016]Description: xi, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780748566Subject(s): Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640 | Strozzi, Barbara, 1619-1677 | Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729 | Martinez, Marianne, 1744-1812 | Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847 | Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896 | Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918 | Maconchy, Elizabeth, 1907-1994 | Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918 | Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640 | Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847 | Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729 | Maconchy, Elizabeth, 1907-1994 | Martinez, Marianne, 1744-1812 | Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896 | Strozzi, Barbara, 1619-1677 | 1587-approximately 1640 -- Studies | Strozzi, Barbara, 1619-1677 -- Studies | Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729 -- Studies | Martinez, Marianne, 1744-1812, -- Studies | Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847, -- Studies | Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896, -- Studies | Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918, -- Studies | Maconchy, Elizabeth, 1907-1994, -- Studies | Women composers -- Europe -- Biography | Komponistin | Musikerin | Women composers | EuropeGenre/Form: Biography. | Biographies.DDC classification: 780.9/22 LOC classification: ML390 | B44 2016
Contents:
Notes from the silence -- [Francesca] Caccini -- [Barbara] Strozzi -- [Élisabeth] Jacquet de la Guerre -- [Marianna] Martines -- [Fanny Mendelssohn] Hensel -- [Clara] Schumann -- [Lili] Boulanger -- [Elizabeth] Maconchy -- Endnote.
Summary: Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard. Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight composers across the centuries, from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century London, restoring to their rightful place exceptional women whom history has forgotten [Publisher description]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes from the silence -- [Francesca] Caccini -- [Barbara] Strozzi -- [Élisabeth] Jacquet de la Guerre -- [Marianna] Martines -- [Fanny Mendelssohn] Hensel -- [Clara] Schumann -- [Lili] Boulanger -- [Elizabeth] Maconchy -- Endnote.

Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard. Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight composers across the centuries, from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century London, restoring to their rightful place exceptional women whom history has forgotten [Publisher description]

700-799 Fine Arts and Recreation

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