Download or read book Women Composers written by Melanie Spanswick and published by Schott Music. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume series of piano music by women composers is a progressive compendium of educational literature with a broad repertoire from the 17th century to the present day. For each piece, the editor has written short instructions with rehearsal tips as well as biographical notes on the women composers. The collection covers all levels of difficulty from easy (volume 1) to medium (volume 2) to difficult (volume 3) and is an indispensable addition to lessons and concerts.
Download or read book Keyboard Music by Women Composers written by Joan Meggett and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1981-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product information not available.
Download or read book A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers written by Pamela Y. Dees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers, A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century. The work also features biographies and extensive bibliographical information for each composer. Arranged alphabetically by composer into categories including single works, collections, and anthologies, the music is also described in terms of grade level, genre, mood, style characteristics, and technical requirements, and ranges in difficulty from late elementary to virtuoso concert repertoire. Far too many teachers, students, professional musicians, and audiences are unaware of the contributions made by women in music, and of the beauty and merit of their specific compositions. This reference work provides an invaluable addition to the current literature.
Download or read book The Piano written by Susan Tomes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2021: Classical Music" "[One of] the most beautiful books I got my hands on this year. . . . About the shaping of this maddening, glorious, unconquerable instrument."--Jenny Colgan, Spectator, "Books of the Year" An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls and has inspired composers in every musical genre--from classical to jazz and light music. Charting the development of the piano from the late eighteenth century to the present day, pianist and writer Susan Tomes takes the reader with her on a personal journey through 100 pieces including solo works, chamber music, concertos, and jazz. Her choices include composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Gershwin, and Philip Glass. Looking at this history from a modern performer's perspective, she acknowledges neglected women composers and players including Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach.
Download or read book Four Centuries of Women Composers written by Gail Smith and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of compositions for piano solo spans four centuries, including a rarely heard piece by Gottchalk's sister, Clara, as well as a charming piece by Marie Antoinette. Other composers include Madame Dussek, Teresa Carreno, Amy Beach, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and others. Three new solos are also offered by the author, Gail Smith.
Download or read book An Annotated Catalog of Available Intermediate level Keyboard Music by Women Composers Born Before 1900 written by Pamela Youngdahl Dees and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sounds and Sweet Airs written by Anna Beer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to the Classic FM series Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy. 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.
Download or read book The Faber Music Piano Anthology written by Melanie Spanswick and published by Faber Music Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful collection of core repertoire from the great composers, presented in progressive order. Selected by pianist Melanie Spanswick, it is ideal for pianists of every level. This is the full eBook edition of The Faber Music Piano Anthology in fixed-layout format and features 'The Concerto' linocut cover by Cyril Edward Power.
Download or read book Music for the Piano written by James Friskin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1954.
Download or read book A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers written by Pamela Youngdahl Dees and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Composers written by Sylvia Glickman and published by G K Hall. This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive historical overview of music created by women from the 9th through the 20th centuries. Each volume features 10-25 complete musical scores or complete movements from multi-movement compositions--most of which have been previously inaccessible. Expert scholars provide original essays about the composers, including biographical information, a discussion of the music in historical context, and critical analysis of each work. Entries also include bibliography, a list of works by the composer, and a discography.
Download or read book Women Making Music written by Jane M. Bowers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 achievements of women, it also illuminates the historical contexts that shaped and defined those achievements.
Download or read book Music by Black Women Composers written by Helen Walker-Hill and published by Center for Black Music Rsrch. This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Women Composers written by Diane Jezic and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though rarely included in traditional music history, women have a remarkable tradition as composers of Western music. This book brings together musical and biographical material on twenty-five women, from the eleventh through the twentieth centuries. Each chapter focuses on one composer, providing an introduction to her life, an analysis of her music, a checklist of her works, and a bibliography. Extensive appendices include a historical outline showing female composers in relation to their more famous male contemporaries by period and genre, and suggestions for further readings and recordings.
Download or read book A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers Composers born before 1900 written by Pamela Youngdahl Dees and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Composers written by Martha Furman Schleifer and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1996 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The composers included in Volume 5 of "Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, Large and Small Instrumental Ensembles," were born between 1700 and 1799. Some women found here are also represented in Volumes 3 (keyboard music) and 4 (vocal music). Unlike most of the composers in Volumes 1 and 2 who belonged to religious orders or noble families, the eighteenth-century composers are of secular background. Many are members of musical families that include mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters-in-law of other composers and musicians. Volume 5 contains fourteen works in a variety of forms and genres by twelve composers from England, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland. The English composers include Maria Barthelemon, M.H. (MarieHester) Park, and Jane Mary Guest (Mrs. Miles). Barthelemon, mother of Cecilia Barthelemon (see Volume 3), is one of many women who published sonatas and other keyboard music in late-18th century London. Her "Sonata, Opus 1, no.3," exemplifies the attractive, playable style for which the era is well known. Park wrote solo and accompanied sonatas, vocal music and a piano concerto. She taught music to members of the nobility and gentry. Guest, known as Mrs. Miles after her marriage, was a brilliant pianist who excelled as a composer for her instrument. Two of her works for solo keyboard can be found in Volume 3. France, despite the unrest of the Revolution, produced talented composers. Madame Louis and Amelie-Julie Candeille both wrote in large forms. Louis's opera Fleur d'epine was performed twelve times by the Comedie Italienne in Paris during the troupe's 1776-1777 season. The score contains an overture and twenty other musical numbers. The overture isincluded here; six vocal numbers from the opera are included in Volume 4. Candeille was one of the most fascinating French women musicians of the Revolutionary era, at times an actress, singer, playwright, pianist, harpist, composer, novelist, and music teacher. Her first play-with-music, "Catherine, ou la Belle Fermiere," enjoyed revivals well into the 1830s. The overture and march from this work are included in this volume; vocal music from "Catherine" may be found in Volume 4. Her attractive piano concerto was clearly composed as a vehicle for her own virtuosic keyboard technique. Helene Montgeroult was another leading French pianist and teacher at the Paris Con- servatoire. She composed piano sonatas, vocal nocturnes, piano transcriptions, and an important set of progressive etudes; for the development of piano technique. Her accompanied piano sonata is included here. The German composers in this volume are either from royal or musical families. Francesca Lebrun (1756-1791), an almost exact contemporary of Mozart, was the daughter of cellist Innocenz Danzi and sister of composer/cellist Franz Danzi. She married oboist Ludwig August Lebrun; their daughters were also musicians. Francesca, a singer and composer, published two sets of piano sonatas with violin accompaniment. Maria Margarethe Marchand Danzi married Francesca Lebrun's brother, Franz. Both Maria and her brother studied with Leopold Mozart. Sonatas with violin obbligato by both Lebrun and Danzi are included in this volume. An opera was commissioned in honor of the birth of composer Princess Royal of Saxony, Maria Antonia Walpurgis, the daughter of Emperor Karl VII of Bavaria and Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria.Walpurgis, also a patron of the arts, wrote poetry and published two operas, "Il triofo della fedelta" and "Talestri, regina delle amazoni. "The overture to "Talestri "appears here. The works of Maria Szymanowska are found in each of the three 18th-century volumes. This Polish born virtuoso pianist and composer wrote over 100 pieces. Two chamber works are presented here. Volume 5 concludes with music by the Venetian-born composer, Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen. Her style, technical virtuosity and aesthetic standards were shaped by her intensive musical education at the Mendicanti in Venice and by the influence of her violin teacher and mentor, Giuseppe Tartini. Sirmen's well-crafted works were widely circulated in Europe, both in manuscript copies and in multiple printed editions.
