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Women in music : an anthology of source readings from the Middle Ages to the present / edited by Carol Neuls-Bates.

Contributor(s): Neuls-Bates, Carol.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1996Edition: Rev. ed.Description: xviii, 400 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 1555532403.Subject(s): Women musicians | Women composersDDC classification: 780.82
Contents:
Middle ages -- Renaissance -- Baroque -- Classic period -- 1820-1920 -- 1920-1981 -- 1982-1995.

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The voices of women such as Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, Clara Schumann, and Marian Anderson resonate as they emerge from the wide range of materials in this volume, which includes letters, diaries, poems, novels, and reviews that reveal women's achievements not only as patrons and educators but also as composers and performers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-385) and index.

Middle ages -- Renaissance -- Baroque -- Classic period -- 1820-1920 -- 1920-1981 -- 1982-1995.

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CHOICE Review

The first edition of this book (1982) was a pathbreaker in the study of women and music. This revised edition, however, is not so much revised as briefly expanded. The first 332 pages almost exactly reproduce the first edition. Three new articles--on an organization, a composer, and a musicologist--have been added to the original 50, a meager representation of the current situation considering the enormous amount of activity during the last decade and a half. Neuls-Bates notes the "very many more scores and recordings available of works by women composers ...." In this light the new, expanded bibliography has serious shortcomings, since it does not include ClarNan Editions (24 items), Furore Editions (German publisher of more than 130 scores), the Hildegard Publishing Company (publisher of about 125 US editions), the Arsis Press (a pioneer in publishing music by American women since the 1970s), G.K. Hall's forthcoming 12-volume series "Women Composers: Music through the Ages," or Leonarda Records, producer of LPs and CDs primarily by women composers. This information would have greatly enhanced readers' access to new material for teaching, research, and performance. Sadly, this revised edition is an opportunity missed. S. Glickman; formerly, Franklin and Marshall College