New Historical Anthology of Music by Women

New Historical Anthology of Music by Women updates the extremely popular collection with 55 compositions by 46 women composers from the ancient Greeks to the present. Each work is introduced by an informative essay by a specialist in the field, with recommendations for further reading, listening, and performing. Historical scores have been transcribed into modern notation for ease of use, and the works represent a wide variety of genres, including solo songs, chamber music, piano music, and orchestral scores. Composers include Sappho, Hildegard of Bingen, Barbara Strozzi, Clara Schumann, and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. The anthology includes a foreword by Susan McClary, the leading scholar on women?s music. New Historical Anthology of Music by Women is supplemented by an expanded 3-CD set featuring newly commissioned recordings.

?In this new edition of Historical Anthology of Music by Women, Briscoe offers an indispensable resource for our own moment. . . . He has commissioned new biographical and critical essays by leading musicologists such as Thomas J. Mathiesen, Elizabeth Aubrey, Suzanne Cusick, Ellen Rosand, and Mark Everist, thus making the most recent interpretations of these women and their music easily available for the classroom.? ?from the Foreword by Susan McClary

CONTENIDO:

Foreword by Susan McClary
Preface
Further Reference
1. Sappho - Thomas J. Mathiesen
"On the throne of many hues, Immortal Aphrodite," and
"The sweet melody of reed pipe and [kithara] mingled," Ancient Greek lyrics

2. Kassia - Diane Touliatos-Miles
"Augustus, the Monarch," and
"The Fallen Woman," Byzantine chants

3. Hildegard von Bingen - Michael Klaper
"O virgo ac diadema," chant sequence
"Kyrie," mass ordinary chant
"O rubor sanguinis," chant antiphon

4. Comtessa de Dia - Elizabeth Aubrey
"A chantar," troubadour song

5. Dame Margot and Dame Maroie de Diergnau - Elizabeth Aubrey
"Je vous pri, dame Maroie," Trouvère jeu-parti

6. Margaret of Austria - Martin Picker
"Se je souspire/Ecce iterum," motet-chanson

7. Anne Boleyn - Janet Pollack
"O Deathe, rock me asleepe," lute song [attributed]

8. Maddalena Casulana - Beatrice Pescerelli
Madrigal VI, "Morte-Che vôi?-Te chiamo"

9. Francesca Caccini - Suzanne Cusick
"Maria, dolce Maria," sacred madrigal from Il Primo libro di madrigale
"Aria of the Shepherd" from the opera La Liberazione di Ruggiero

10. Barbara Strozzi - Ellen Rosand
Hor che Apollo, Cantata for soprano, two violins, and continuo

11. Isabella Leonarda - Barbara Garvey Jackson
Kyrie and "Crucifixus" (from the Credo) of Missa Prima, Opus 18

12. Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre - Susan Erickson
"La Flamande" and "Chaconne et son double" from Suite in D minor for harpsichord
Semelé, cantata for voice, violin, and continuo

13. Maria Margherita Grimani - Barbara Garvey Jackson
"Sinfonia" from Pallade e Marte, opus dramaticum

14. Anna Amalie Jill - Munroe Fankhauser
"Adagio" from Sonata for Flute and Continuo in F

15. Marianna von Martines - Karin Pendle
"Allegro" from Sonata in A for piano

16. Maria Theresia von Paradis - Hidemi Matshushita
"Morgenlied eines armen Mannes" for voice and harpsichord

17. Maria Agata Szymanowska - Nancy Fierro
"Nocturne in B-flat" for piano

18. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Marcia J. Citron
"Schwanenlied" for voice and piano

19. Clara Wieck Schumann - Nancy Reich
"Er ist gekommen durch Sturm und Regen," song for voice and piano
"Allegro Moderato" from Trio in G minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello
Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann for piano

20. Louise Farrenc - Christin Heitmann
"Allegro deciso" from Trio in E minor for flute, cello, and piano

21. Pauline Viardot - Mark Everist
"Die Beschwörung," from Zwölf Gedichte von Pushkin for voice and piano

22. Amy Beach Adrienne - Fried Block
"In the Twilight," for voice and piano
"A Hermit Thrush at Morn," for piano
"Scherzo" from Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

23. Teresa Carreño - Laura Barceló-Lastra
"Venise," from Italian Sketches Op.33, No.1, for piano

24. Cécile Chaminade - Marcia J. Citron
"Allegro," movement I from Sonata in C minor for piano

25. Dame Ethyl Smyth - Roberta Lindsey
Scene from Act I of the opera The Wreckers

26. May Frances Aufderheide - Carolynn A. Lindeman
"The Thriller!" rag

27. Lili Boulanger - Annegret Fauser
"Demain fera un an" from the song cycle Clairières dans le ciel

28. Alma Mahler - Susan Filler
"Der Erkennende" for voice and piano

29. Rebecca Clarke - Bryony Jones
"Allegro vigoroso" movement III from Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello

30. Germaine Tailleferre - Caroline Potter
"Modéré sans lenteur" from Sonata in C-sharp minor for violin and piano

31. Ruth Crawford Seeger - Sharon Mirchandani
Prelude no. 2 for piano
String Quartet 1931, movements 3 and 4
"Rat Riddles" from Three Songs for Contralto, Oboe, Percussion, and Orchestral Ostinati

32. Florence Price - Melissa Blakesly
"Song to the Dark Virgin," for voice and piano

33. Elsa Barraine - James R. Briscoe
Ouvrage de Dame, Theme and Variations for woodwind quintet

34. Miriam Gideon - Barbara A. Petersen
The Hound of Heaven, for voice, oboe, and string trio

35. Grazyna Bacewicz - Judith Rosen
Sonata II for Piano

36. Julia Perry - Roberta Lindsey
Homunculus C.F., for percussion, harp, and piano

37. Vivian Fine - Vivian Fine and "The Triumph of Alcestis," from the ballet Alcestis James R. Briscoe

38. Jean Coulthard - David Gordon Duke
"Sarabande," from Sonata for Cello and Piano

39. Violet Archer - Robert Weber
"Preamble," from Sonata for with James R. Briscoe from Alto Saxophone and Piano
40. Pauline Oliveros - Roberta Lindsey
"Teach Tourself to Fly," "Tumbling Song," and "Zina's Circle" from Sonic Meditations

41. Thea Musgrave - James R. Briscoe
"Monologue of Mary," from the opera Mary, Queen of Scots

42. Ellen Taafe Zwilich - Craig Parker
Symphony No. 1, movement 1

43. Augusta Read Thomas - James R. Briscoe
...circle around the sun..., Trio for piano, violin, and cello


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