Music and the skillful listener : American women compose the natural world /
For the author, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In this book, the author explores the relationship between listening and musical composition, focusing on nine American women composers inspired by...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Bloomington ; Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press,
2013
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Series: | Music, nature, place.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- A context for composers : within the nature-writing tradition
- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H.H.A. Beach)
- Marion Bauer
- Louise Talma
- Pauline Oliveros
- Joan Tower
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
- Victoria Bond
- Libby Larsen
- Emily Doolittle
- Conclusions : the repercussions of listening.