The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 23 May 2024
- 30 May 2024
- ISBN:
- 9781108774079
- 9781108489157
- 9781108733519
- Dimensions:
- (244 x 170 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.81kg, 376 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (244 x 170 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.65kg, 376 Pages
- Subjects:
- Music, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism
- Series:
- Cambridge Companions to Music
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- Music, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism
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Book description
Moving beyond narratives of female suppression, and exploring the critical potential of a diverse, distinguished repertoire, this Companion transforms received understanding of women composers. Organised thematically, and ranging beyond elite, Western genres, it explores the work of diverse female composers from medieval to modern times, besides the familiar headline names. The book's prologue traces the development of scholarship on women composers over the past five decades and the category of 'woman composer' itself. The chapters that follow reveal scenes of flourishing creativity, technical innovation, and (often fleeting) recognition, challenging long-held notions around invisibility and neglect and dismissing clichés about women composers and their work. Leading scholars trace shifting ideas about composers and compositional processes, contributing to a wider understanding of how composers have functioned in history and making this volume essential reading for all students of musical history. In an epilogue, three contemporary composers reflect on their careers and identities.
Reviews
‘Beautifully curated, sumptuously documented, and well organized, The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers should stand proudly and enduringly in every musician’s library.’
Claire Fontijn Source: Notes, the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association
‘‘The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers’ makes an important contribution to both feminist, revisionist musicology and to historical and contemporary music scholarship. In addition to presenting crucial reappraisals of women composers, this collection also provides an in-depth and pertinent historical context through the lens of which a satisfying and rich analysis is formed. This volume is also an important pedagogical text that could be used to introduce students to critical ideas in feminist and historical musicology and equally by early career researchers as a springboard for further research.’
Ann Grindley Source: Music & Letters
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