Early American women composers are barely represented in standard reference works, yet their output constitutes a significant proportion of the bound sheet music in the collections in the New York Public Library, Yale University, Boston Public Library, and the New York Historical Society that form the basis of this study. Beginning with the first sheet music published by a woman in America, in the 1790s, the book goes on to examine music by mid-nineteenth century composers, including brief biographies of five prominent women active in the 1850s and 60s.
Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Details
First Published: 01 Nov 2010
13 Digit ISBN: 9781878822598
Pages: 318
Size: 22.8 x 15.2
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
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MusicBIC Class: AV
Details updated on 18 May 2013
Contents
- 1 Preface to the New Edition by Ruth Solie
- 2
- 3 Introduction
- 4 The Tradition of Music as a Feminine Accomplishment, 1770 to 1830
- 5 Accomplishment Becomes Middle-Class
- 6 Music in Female Seminaries
- 7 Humble Beginnings, 1790 to 1825
- 8 A Woman Composer's Place is in the Parlor: New Trends in Mid-Century
- 9 Five Mid-Nineteenth-Century Composers
- 10 The Emergence of a Professional Ethos for Women Composers
- 11 Appendix. Selected Compositions Published by Women in the U.S. before 1870
