Format:
Book
Author:
Beer, Anna R., 1964- author.
Title:
Sounds and sweet airs : the forgotten women of classical music / Anna Beer.
Publisher, Date:
London : Oneworld Publications, 2016.
Description:
xi, 368 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Summary:
Sounds and Sweet Airs 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.
Subjects:
Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640.
Strozzi, Barbara, 1619-1677.
Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729.
Martinez, Marianne, 1744-1812.
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847.
Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896.
Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918.
Maconchy, Elizabeth, 1907-1994.
Women composers -- Europe -- Biography.
Komponistin.
Musikerin.
Other Title:
Forgotten women of classical music
Women of classical music
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-354), discography (page 334) and index.
Contents:
Notes from the silence -- Caccini -- Strozzi -- Jacquet de la Guerre -- Martines -- Hensel -- Schumann -- Boulanger -- Maconchy.
ISBN:
9781780748566
1780748566
Other Number:
919107359
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Current Holds:
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Control Number:
591018
Call Number:
780.922 Beer
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