Women composers : the lost tradition found / Diane Peacock Jezic ; foreword by Elizabeth Wood.
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Feminist Press at the City University of New York,
c1988.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: The medieval and baroque. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) : Life in the Medieval convents ; Francesca Caccini (1587-1640) : The Medici court of Florence ; Barbara Strozzi (1619-1664) : The Venetian musical academies ; Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) : The convent in Novara ; Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1666-1729) : The count of Louis XIV
- Part two: The classical period. Anna Amalia, princess of Prussia (1723-1787) : The court of Frederick the Great ; Anna Amilia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (1739-1807) : The court of Weimar ; Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824) : Vienna and Beyond
- Part three: The romantic period
- songs. Louise Reichardt (1779-1826) : The romantic spirit ; Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) : Domestic music making ; Josephine Lang (1815-1880) : The public sphere ; Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896) : Touring artist and composer ; Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910) : International recognition
- Part four: The romantic period and early twentieth century
- instrumental music. Jeanne-Louise Dumont Farrenc (1804-1875) : Pianist, composer, scholar ; Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot (1841-1919) : Musical families ; Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) : Chevalière de la Légion d Honneure ; Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) : The prix of Rome ; Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) : U.S. symphonist ; Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) : English performer and composer
- Part five: Six living U.S. composers. Katherine Hoover (b. 1937) : Virtuoso flutist and composer ; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939) : The Pulitzer Prize ; Ruth Schonthal (b. 1924) : Emigré composer and teacher ; Barbara Kolb (b. 1939) : New vistas ; Marga Richter (b. 1926) : Chamber music and orchestral composer ; Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945) : Pianist, author, composer
- Appendix 1: Music appreciation textbooks ranked in order of number of women composers mentioned
- Appendix 2: Record companies featuring woman composers
- Appendix 3: An outline of western music from 1850 through the 1940's
- Appendix 4: Twentieth-century women composers born after 1920
- Appendix 5: A selected list of twentieth-century women conductors
- Appendix 6: Recordings available from Leonarda Productions.