New,The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers
- Editor: Head, Matthew
- Editor: Wollenberg, Susan
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Contents
- List of figures
- List of music examples
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Prologue: studies in women composers – the first fifty years Matthew Head and Susan Wollenberg
- Part I . Themes in Studying Women Composers:
- 1. Historical women composers and the transience of female musical fame Paula Higgins
- 2. In search of a feminist analysis Susan Wollenberg
- 3. Composing women's history: beyond suppression and separate spheres Matthew Head
- 4. Progress and professionalism Sophie Fuller
- 5. Women composers and feminism Leah Broad
- Part II . Highlighting Women Composers Before 1750:
- 6. Medieval women in composition and musical production Margot Fassler
- 7. Sixteenth-century women composers, beyond borders Laurie Stras
- 8. Women and composition, c. 1600–1750 Rebecca Cypess
- Part III . Women Composers c. 1750–1880: Forms of Musical Culture:
- 9. Did women have a classical style? Matthew Head and Susan Wollenberg
- 10. Women, song, and subjectivity in the nineteenth century Anja Bunzel and Stephen Rodgers
- 11. Women, pianos, and virtuosity in the nineteenth century Joe Davies and Alexander Stefaniak
- Part IV . Women Composers c. 1880–2000: New Waves:
- 12. First-wave feminism and professional status Sophie Fuller
- 13. Women composers, experimentalism and technology, 1945–1980 Louise Gray
- 14. Vibrations: women in sound art, 1980–2000 Gascia Ouzounian
- Epilogue: composers' voices Nicola Lefanu, Roxanna Panufnik and Shirley Thompson
- Bibliography
- Index.