The kaleidoscope of women's sounds in music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries
By: by Kheng K. Koay
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781443876520
Subjects: Music by women composers; Music; Analysis, appreciation; History and criticism; Women composers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women composers and modern society; title: Creativity, reception to and background of the composers; title: Bold sound colors and space. Sofia Gubaidulina, Quaternion ; Joan Tower, String quartet no. 2, In memory; title: Straddling classical and American vernacular idioms. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Millennium fantasy ; Libby Larsen, Four on the floor; title: The cross-over and national influences. Chen Yi, Ba Yin ; Judith Weir, Distance and enchantment.