New,The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers

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.