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

Description

Product ID:	9780252014703
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	US
Title:	Women Making Music
Subtitle:	The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950
Authors:	Author: Jane Bowers, Judith Tick
Page Count:	424
Subjects:	Music, Music, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies, gender groups
Description:	"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.
Imprint Name:	University of Illinois Press
Publisher Name:	University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	1987-08-01

Weight	638 g
Dimensions	229 × 151 × 21 mm