Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960-2000

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Laurel Parsons Brenda Ravenscroft (Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music, Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music, McGill University)

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers

Concert Music, 1960-2000

Laurel Parsons, Brenda Ravenscroft (Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music, Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music, McGill University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
16 November 2017

Theory of music & musicology; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts. But detailed analysis and discussion of the works created by these composers are still extremely rare. This is particularly true in the domain of music theory, where scholarly work continues to focus almost exclusively on male composers. Moreover, while the number of performances, broadcasts, and recordings of music by women has unquestionably grown, these works remain significantly underrepresented in comparison to music by male composers. Addressing these deficits is not simply a matter of rectifying a scholarly gender imbalance: the lack of knowledge surrounding the music of female composers means that scholars, performers, and the general public remain unfamiliar with a large body of exciting repertoire.

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960-2000 is the first to appear in a groundbreaking four-volume series devoted to compositions by women across Western art music history. Each chapter opens with a brief biographical sketch of the composer before presenting an in-depth critical-analytic exploration of a single representative composition, linking analytical observations with questions of meaning and sociohistorical context. Chapters are grouped thematically by analytical approach into three sections, each of which places the analytical methods used in the essays that follow into the context of late twentieth-century ideas and trends. Featuring rich analyses and critical discussions, many by leading music theorists in the field, this collection brings to the fore repertoire from a range of important composers, thereby enabling further exploration by scholars, teachers, performers, and listeners.

Edited by: Laurel Parsons, Brenda Ravenscroft (Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music, Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music, McGill University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9780190665814
ISBN 10: 0190665815
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 16 November 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Laurel Parsons, Ph.D., is a music theorist who has taught at the University of Victoria, University of British Columbia, Queen's University, and the University of Oregon. Her research interests include post-tonal music by Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, and Danish electroacoustic composer Else-Marie Pade, representation of Inuit poetry in late 20th-century Canadian and British music, and post-secondary music pedagogy for students with learning differences. She has published articles on Lutyens's music in Theory & Practice and Canadian University Music Review, and on aural skills pedagogy for students with dyslexia in Music Theory Online. In addition, she has contributed chapters to Arctic Discourses (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) and British Modernism and Music 1895-1960 (Ashgate, 2010). From 2012 to 2015, she chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women. Brenda Ravenscroft, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University. Her research focuses on post-tonal American music, text and music, rhythmic organization, the music of South African composer Priaulx Rainier, and pedagogy in higher education. In addition to articles on music by Elliott Carter, John Cage and Lou Harrison in such journals as Music Analysis, Perspectives of New Music, and Music Theory Spectrum, she has contributed a chapter on Carter's vocal music to Elliott Carter Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and authored the ""Case Study on Music Analysis"" in The Flipped College Classroom (Springer, 2015). She chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women from 2006 to 2009."

Reviews for Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960-2000

"""To some, the statistics quoted at the beginning of Analytical Essays on Women Composers may seem startling. The paucity of analytical articles discussing music by women -- a mere 1.51 percent in eight noteworthy music theory and analysis journals -- would seem inexplicable from any vantage point that regards diversity as a factor worthy of consideration. Editors Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft are respected in the field and have made efforts with their scholarship, and with this volume, to bridge the divide. While the essays vary in difficulty, making the target audience somewhat variable, there are readings suited to keeping both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as their instructors and researchers, amply diverted ... [T]he book's figures and examples are well engraved to explicate concepts, and the aforementioned inclusion of online recordings is an excellent accompaniment to those visual elements ... This is a valuable and long overdue book."" -- Tempo"

Winner of Winner of the 2017 IAWM Pauline Alderman Award Winner of the Society for Music Theory Outstanding Multi-author Collection award 2017.
Winner of Winner of the Society for Music Theory Outstanding Multi-author Collection award 2017.