Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900?1960 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Parsons, Laurel; Ravenscroft, Brenda

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through musical analysis of compositions written in the first half of the twentieth century, Analytic Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900-1960 celebrates the achievements of eight composers: Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964), Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), Ruth Crawford (1901-53), Florence B. Price (1887-1953), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006), J. M. Beyer (1888-1944), and Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90). Written by outstanding music theorists and musicologists, the essays provide thought-provoking in-depth explorations of representative compositions, often linking analytical observations with questions of meaning and sociohistorical context. Each essay is introduced by a brief biographical sketch of the composer by editors Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft. This collection - Volume 2 in an unprecedented four-volume series of analytical studies on music by women composers - is designed to challenge and stimulate a wide range of readers. For academics, these thoughtful analytical essays can open new paths into unexplored research areas in the fields of music theory and musicology. Post-secondary instructors may be inspired by the insights offered in these essays to include new works in music theory and history courses at both graduate and upper-level undergraduate levels, or in courses on women and music. Finally, for soloists, ensembles, conductors, and music broadcasters, these detailed analyses can offer enriched understandings of this repertoire and suggest fresh, new programming possibilities to share with listeners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190236991
• Artikelnr.: 64709468

Autorenporträt

Laurel Parsons is Full Teaching Professor of Music Theory and Co-ordinator of Aural Skills at the University of Alberta. Her research interests focus on the music of British composer Elisabeth Lutyens, Danish composer Else Marie Pade, and aural skills pedagogy related to post-secondary students with learning differences. From 2012-15 she chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women. Brenda Ravenscroft is Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Her research focuses on post-tonal American music, text and music, rhythmic organization, and pedagogy. She chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women from 2006 to 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* About the Companion Website
* Chapter 1. Introduction
* Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft
* Part 1. Music for Voice
* Chapter 2. Alma Mahler-Werfel, "Licht in der Nacht" (1901): Searching
for the Light: Harmonic Cycles and Feedback Loops in Alma
Mahler-Werfel's "Licht in der Nacht"
* Kenneth M. Smith
* Chapter 3. Rebecca Clarke, "Tiger, Tiger" (1933): Extended Tonality
and Text-Setting in Rebecca Clarke's "Tiger, Tiger"
* Zachary Bernstein
* Chapter 4. Ethel Smyth, The Boatswain's Mate (1913-1914): A Wrinkle?
Gender and Motive in Ethel Smyth's The Boatswain's Mate
* Rachel Lumsden
* Chapter 5. Ruth Crawford, Chants for Women's Chorus (1930): "Not yet
accepted as singing": Ruth Crawford's "To An Angel" from Chants for
Women's Chorus
* Ellie M. Hisama
* Part 2. Instrumental Music
* Chapter 6. Florence B. Price, Piano Sonata in E minor (1932): Culture
and Craft in Florence Price's Piano Sonata in E minor (First
Movement)
* Horace J. Maxile, Jr.
* Chapter 7. Galina Ustvolskaya, Sonata for Violin and Piano (1952):
Motivic Patterns, Repetition, and Formal Structures in Galina
Ustvolskaya's Sonata for Violin and Piano
* Tim Sullivan
* Chapter 8. J. M. Beyer, String Quartet no. 2 (1933-34): Imagination
and Method: J. M. Beyer's String Quartet no. 2
* Marguerite Boland
* Chapter 9. Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Sinfonia da Pacifica (1952-53):
Avant-garde or Postmodern? The Melody-Rhythm Concept in Peggy
Glanville-Hicks's Sinfonia da Pacifica
* Victoria Rogers
* Glossary
* Bibliography
* Index