Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 / Edition 1

by Jane Bowers, Judith Tick

Overview

"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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252014703
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	08/01/1987
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

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.
 

Editorial Reviews

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.

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