Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers

Concert Music, 1960-2000
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-023686-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts. But detailed analysis and discussion of the works created by these composers are still extremely rare. This is particularly true in the domain of music theory, where scholarly work continues to focus almost exclusively on male composers. Moreover, while the number of performances, broadcasts, and recordings of women's compositions has unquestionably grown, they remain significantly underrepresented in comparison to music by male composers. Addressing these deficits is not simply a matter of rectifying a scholarly gender imbalance: the lack of knowledge surrounding the music of women composers means that scholars, performers, and the general public remain unfamiliar with a large body of exciting repertoire.

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music from 1960-2000 is the first to appear in an exciting a four volume series devoted to the work of women composers across Western art music history. Each chapter, many by leading music theorists, opens with a brief biographical sketch of the composer before presenting an in-depth critical-analytic exploration of a single representative composition, linking analytical observations with questions of meaning and sociohistorical context. Chapters are grouped thematically by analytical approach into three sections, each of which places the analytical methods used in the essays that follow into the context of late twentieth-century ideas and trends. Featuring rich analyses and detailed study by the most reputed music theorists in the field, along with brief biographical sketches for each composer, this collection brings to the fore the essential repertoire of a range of important composers, many of whom otherwise stand outside the standard canon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parsons, Laurel

Ravenscroft, Brenda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 Neidhöfer

- 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 magnolia…, " From the Grammar of Dreams (1988)

- Biography

- Superposition in Kaija Saariaho's "The claw of the magnolia… "

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Laurel Parsons has taught music theory and aural skills at the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia, Queen's University, and the University of Oregon. Her research interests include aural skills pedagogy and the serial music of Elisabeth Lutyens. From 2012-15 she chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women.

Brenda Ravenscroft is Associate Professor of music theory and Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's 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.