Sounds and sweet airs
Subtitle: the forgotten women of classical music
By: Anna Beer
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781780748566
Subjects: Music by women composers; Women composers; Biography; History and criticism
Other titles: Forgotten women of classical music
Description: Reveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable female composers, taking the reader on a journey from seventeenth-century Medici Florence to London in the Blitz.
Notes: "Glossary": pages 335-342; "Further listening : a highly personal playlist": pages 331-333.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-354), discography (page 334), web resources, and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes from the silence; title: Caccini; title: Strozzi; title: Jacquet de la Guerre; title: Martines; title: Hensel; title: Schumann; title: Boulanger; title: Maconchy; title: Endnote.