Music and the skillful listener: American women compose the natural world
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Main Author: Von Glahn, Denise (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press [2013]
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
A context for composers : within the nature-writing tradition -- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H.H.A. Beach) -- Marion Bauer -- Louise Talma -- Pauline Oliveros -- Joan Tower -- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -- Victoria Bond -- Libby Larsen -- Emily Doolittle -- Conclusions : the repercussions of listening
For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim ""be seen and not heard."" In Skillful Listeners, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world:Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates ""nature composing"" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their litera
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 397 pages)
ISBN:9780253007933
0253007933
9780253006622
0253006627

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