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A Century of Composition by Women

Editors: Kouvaras, Linda; Grenfell, Maria; Williams, Natalie

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95557-1

ISBN: 978-3-030-95556-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 2, 2022

1 - 10 of 22 Chapters

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Composing Women’s (Very) Long 100-Year Fight: Evolutions, Illuminations, Solutions

Kouvaras, Linda

Pages: 1 –23

[Positioning the book within the worldwide resurgence in feminist focus, Kouvaras reflects on the collection’s accounts of creative processes and contextual issues pertaining to current-day and early-twentieth-century woman composers: their rich compositional voices and the testing—to say the...
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Synaesthetic Associations and Gendered Nature Imagery: Female Agency in the Piano Music of Amy Beach

Clarke, Sabrina

Pages: 27 –51

[This chapter explores nature, gender, and narrative in three piano works by American composer Amy Beach (1867–1944). Structural and hermeneutic analysis of Beach’s Four Sketches (1892), Eskimos (1907), and From Grandmother’s Garden (1922) reveals how nature imagery is strategically interwoven...
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Australian Bush Songs as Multimodal Discourse: The Remarkable Collaboration of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie Rentoul, and Georgette Peterson

Selleck, Johanna

Pages: 53 –77

[In the early decades of the twentieth century, Melbourne was a city undergoing enormous political, social, and cultural transformation. Within this volatile melting pot, three women pursed their respective arts in close collaboration to produce a remarkable series of children’s songs and...
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The 1940s Australian Ballet That “Far Outstripped … ‘Swan Lake’ in Popular Appeal”: Esther Rofe’s Ground-Breaking Ballet, Sea Legend

Townsend, Emma

Pages: 79 –95

[While little-known today, Sea Legend (1935–1943) was an enormously successful ballet composed by Australian composer, Esther Rofe (1904–2000). Premiered in Melbourne in 1943 by the Borovansky Ballet, Sea Legend was part of acclaimed, reportedly record-breaking, Australasian seasons during the...
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Italians, Indians and the Indigenous: Innovative Themes and Material Used in Operas Written by Early-Twentieth-Century Australian Women Composers

Carrigan, Jeanell

Pages: 97 –114

[When asked about opera, many people would immediately think of a large-scale vocal and dramatic work written by a European male. Rarely would “opera” conjure the image of an Australian woman composer. Yet a number of Australian women wrote operas that were performed and well-reviewed. Mona...
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“Conjuring Up the Magic”: Helen Gifford’s Compositional Passage to the Creation of Fable for Solo Harp

Dennett, Jacinta

Pages: 115 –141

[This chapter celebrates the creative work of Australian composer, Helen Gifford (b. 1935). Beginning with Gifford’s earliest composition and tracing the composer’s evolving, idiosyncratic compositional style, this chapter leads to the composition that Gifford claims was the “beginning of her...
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Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories: The Revivification of the Colonial Piano Manifested Through a New Work by Catherine Milliken

Smart, Gabriella

Pages: 143 –156

[Catherine Milliken’s composition Steel-True Gold-Sole (Sounding Robert Louis Stevenson) demonstrates the power of a composer to contemporise a significant historical cultural object. Milliken wrote her work for my 2018 project, Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories, for which 12 composers from...
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Beyond Exploitation: Feminist Satire in Jennifer Walshe’s XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!!

Robertson, Jaslyn

Pages: 157 –170

[Satire is used as a feminist tool in Irish composer Jennifer Walshe’s work XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!! The 2003 Barbie DollTM-opera contains controversial themes of violence, vanity and oppression, culminating in an extended rape scene enacted by dolls. Through the dramatised representation of how...
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Hildegard’s Daughters: Women Composers “Overcoming Their Astonishment”

Williams, Natalie

Pages: 171 –190

[Women composers from the time of Hildegard von Bingen to the present day face both historical and contemporary challenges obstructing the promotion of their work. Women are vastly underrepresented in classical music creation and programming. Despite recent global support initiatives, growing...
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Is the Category of the “Woman Artist” Still Helpful?

Best, Susan

Pages: 191 –205

[In the visual arts, the idea of women’s art as something specific and identifiable has had an uneven reception. This chapter examines three “moments” of that reception in feminist art history. The first “moment” occurs in the early 1970s, when American artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro put...

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