21M.410 | Spring 2007 | Undergraduate

Vocal Repertoire and Performance: Women Composers

Study Materials

Books

Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. New York, NY: Books & Music (USA), 1987. ISBN: 9780961748524.

Fuller, Sophie, ed. The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the U.S. 1629-Present. San Francisco, CA: Pandora, 1994. ISBN: 9780044408970.

Jackson, Barbara Garvey. Say Can You Deny Me: A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th through the 18th Centuries. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1994. ISBN: 9781557283030.

Jezic, Diane. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found. 2nd ed. (prepared by Elizabeth Wood). New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1988. ISBN: 9780935312942.

Kimball, Carol, arr., ed. Women Composers: A Heritage Of Song: Low Voice. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2005. ISBN: 9780634078712.

———. Women Composers: A Heritage Of Song: High Voice. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2005. ISBN: 9780634078705.

Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, eds. Norton Grove Dictionary of American Women Composers. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1995. ISBN: 9780393034875.

Simmons, Margaret, and Wagner, Jeanine, eds. A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University. Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780809325238.

Stewart-Green, Miriam. Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1981. ISBN: 9780816184989.

Taylor, Vivian, ed. Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers. Bryn Mawr, PA: Hildegard Publishing Co., 1995.

Walker-Hill, Helen. From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780313299476.

Repertoire

Beach, Amy. Two Songs for Voice and Piano, Op. 73

Beach, Amy. Three Songs For Voice and Piano, Op. 21

Beach, Amy. Three Songs for Voice, Violin, Cello and Piano

Beach, Amy. Three Browing Songs for Low Voice and Piano

Beach, Amy. Villanelle (Across the World) for Voice and Piano, Op. 20

Beach, Amy. Three Songs for Voice and Piano, Op. 19

Beach, Amy. Four Songs for Voice and Piano, Op. 14

Beach, Amy. Five Songs on French and German Texts

Beach, Amy. Twenty-Three Songs

Beach, Amy. 28 Songs In Four Volumes

Course Info

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Spring 2007
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Written Assignments with Examples