Jill Halstead: 2 books
The Woman Composer
Creativity and the Gendered Politics of Musical Composition
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Unlike previous anthologizing examinations of women and musical composition, this book concentrates on the reasons why there have been, and continue to be, so few women composers. Jill Halstead focuses on the experiences of nine composers born in the twentieth century (Avril Coleridge Taylor, Grace...
Ruth Gipps
Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain's most prolific female composers. Her creative output spanned some seventy years and includes symphonies, tone poems, concertos, string quartets and various large-scale choral and chamber works. Not content with her creative activities,...