Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music from 1960-2000
- Author: Parsons, Laurel
- Author: Ravenscroft, Brenda
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Contents
- Introduction
- Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft
- PART I
- Order, Freedom and Design
- Chapter 1. Ursula Mamlok, Panta Rhei, Third Movement (1981)
- Biography
- Twelve Tone in My Own Way: An Analytical Study of Ursula Mamlok's Panta Rhei, Third Movement, with Some Reflections on Twelve-Tone Music in America
- Joseph N. Straus
- Chapter 2. Norma Beecroft, Improvvisazioni Concertanti No. 1 (1961)
- Biography
- Improvvisazioni Concertanti No. 1 by Norma Beecroft: Serialism, Improvisatory Discourse, and the Musical Avant-garde
- Christoph Neidhofer
- Chapter 3. Joan Tower, Silver Ladders (1986)
- Biography
- Octatonicism, the Octatonic Scale, and Large-Scale Structure in Joan Tower's Silver Ladders
- Jonathan W. Bernard
- PART II
- Gesture, Identity and Culture
- Chapter 4. Sofia Gubaidulina, String Quartet No. 2 (1987)
- Biography
- Difference Inhabits Repetition : Sofia Gubaidulina's String Quartet No. 2
- Judy Lochhead
- Chapter 5. Chen Yi, Symphony No. 2 (1993)
- Biography
- The Transformative Power of Musical Gestures: Cultural Translation in Chen Yi's Symphony No. 2
- Nancy Rao
- PART III
- Music, Words and Voices
- Chapter 6. Kaija Saariaho, The claw of the magnoliaEL, From the Grammar of Dreams (1988)
- Biography
- Superposition in Kaija Saariaho's The claw of the magnoliaEL
- John Roeder
- Chapter 7. Libby Larsen, Chanting Towards Paradise (1997)
- Biography
- Music as a Mirror: Libby Larsen's Chanting Towards Paradise
- Brenda Ravenscroft
- Chapter 8. Elisabeth Lutyens, Essence of Our Happinesses (1968)
- Biography
- This Imaginary Halfe-Nothing: Temporality in Elisabeth Lutyens's Essence of Our Happinesses
- Laurel Parsons
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index