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

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

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Jane Bowers (Contributor) Judith Tick (Contributor)  

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"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. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
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.
  • Contributor: Jane Bowers
  • Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN13: 9780252014703
  • Number of Pages: 424
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x33mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Release Date: 1987-08-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: 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.

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