"A study of American women composers that attempts to map out a hitherto unknown history by defining the issues involved, and establishing some criteria for dealing with a large repertory of sheet music published in the mid-19th century. It also traces the attitudes found in etiquette books, discusses education in female seminaries, and locates the most important popular composers together with some outstanding works. Beginning with the first sheet music published by a woman in America, in the 1790s, the text goes on to examine music by 19th-century composers, including brief biographies of five prominent women active in the 1850s and 60s. During this time, women moved from rather tentative efforts at musical composition - when most of their music was published anonymously - to becoming competitors in the flourishing sheet music market of the mid-1800s, writng parlour songs and keyboard pieces which became popular commercial successes. The succeeding generation of women composers was the first to write serious works in the ""higher forms"" of symphony and opera."
By:
David Tick (Royalty Account),
Ruth Solie
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 579mm,
Width: 386mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9781878822598
ISBN 10: 1878822594
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 01 November 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface to the New Edition by Ruth Solie Introduction The Tradition of Music as a Feminine Accomplishment, 1770 to 1830 Accomplishment Becomes Middle-Class Music in Female Seminaries Humble Beginnings, 1790 to 1825 A Woman Composer's Place is in the Parlor: New Trends in Mid-Century Five Mid-Nineteenth-Century Composers The Emergence of a Professional Ethos for Women Composers Appendix. Selected Compositions Published by Women in the U.S. before 1870
Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Reviews for American Women Composers before 1870
