Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular & Sacred Music to 1900

Laurel Parsons has taught music theory and aural skills at the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, Queen's University, and the University of Oregon. Her research interests include aural skills pedagogy and learning differences, and the music of Elisabeth Lutyens. From 2012-15 she chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women.

Brenda Ravenscroft is Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Her research focuses on post-tonal American music, text and music, rhythmic organization, and pedagogy. She chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women from 2006 to 2009.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: "Half of Humanity has Something to Say, Also"
Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft

PART I: EARLY MUSIC FOR VOICE
Chapter 2. Hildegard of Bingen, O ierusalem aurea civitas (ca. 1150-70)
Varied Repetition in Hildegard's Sequence for St. Rupert: O ierusalem aurea civitas
Jennifer Bain

Chapter 3. Maddalena Casulana, "Per lei pos' in oblio" from Cinta di fior (1570)
Finding the "Air" in Maddalena Casulana's Madrigals
Peter Schubert

Chapter 4. Barbara Strozzi, Appresso ai molli argenti (1659)
Consolation Amid Barbarous Misfortune: Barbara Strozzi's Appresso ai molli argenti and the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Lament
Richard Kolb and Barbara Swanson

PART II: SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY KEYBOARD MUSIC
Chapter 5. Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Sarabandes from the Suites in A minor (1687) and D minor (1707)
In the Realm of All the Senses: Two Sarabandes by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Susan McClary

Chapter 6. Marianna Martines, Sonata in A major, I (1765)
"Zierlichkeit und Genie": Grace and Genius in Marianna Martines's Sonata in A major
L. Poundie Burstein

PART III: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIEDER AND PIANO MUSIC
Chapter 7. Fanny Hensel, "Von dir, mein Lieb, ich scheiden muss" (1841) and "Ich kann wohl manchmal singen" (1846)
Fanny Hensel's Schematic Fantasies; Or, The Art of Beginning
Stephen Rodgers

Chapter 8. Josephine Lang, "An einer Quelle" (1840/1853) and "Am Morgen" (1840)
Josephine Lang's Multiple Settings of Poems by Christian Reinhold Köstlin
Harald Krebs

Chapter 9. Clara Schumann, "Liebst du um Schönheit" (1841)
Multiply-Interrupted Structure in Clara Schumann's "Liebst du um Schönheit"
Michael Baker

Chapter 10. Amy Beach, "Phantoms," op. 15, no. 2 (1892)
Gapped Lines and Ghostly Flowers in Amy Beach's "Phantoms," op. 15, no. 2
Edward D. Latham

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