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A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers - Vol. 1
Includes: Composers Born before 1900

Book by Pamela Youngdahl Dees; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Music By Women Composers--Bio-Bibliography, Piano Music--Bibliography

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...ClagS Claghorn, Gene. Women Composers and Songwriters. Clark Clark...International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Dubal Dubal, David. The...The Pandora Guide to Women Composers. G F Gustafson, Bruce and...Hale Hale, Philip, ed. Famous Composers and Their Works...
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Popular American Composers from Revolutionary Times to the Present: A Biographical and Critical Guide

Book by David H. Ewen; H. W. Wilson, 1962

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Composers--United States

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...successful and sought-after composers on Broadway. Rupert Hughes...preeminent position among Broadway composers. His most successful operettas...bye Baby," in which the composer indulged his flair for parody...imitating the styles of several famous composers. Babes in Toyland was given...
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The World of Great Composers

Book by David Ewen; Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962

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Composers--Biography

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...1720. In short order Handel became one of the most famous composers in England. But he also made powerful enemies among...brought to London one of Italys most eminent opera composers, Giovanni Bononcini 1670- 1747 . At first Bononcini...
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Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits

Book by Michael H. Kater; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Composers--Germany--Biography, Music--Germany--20th Century--History And Criticism, National Socialism

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...Pfitzner, suggest a thinker as much as a composer. Indeed, one of his post-World...wrongly, that Pfitzner was the only composer of the Nazi era who attempted to come...receive notice as a musician, from famous composers such as Brahms and Max Bruch, had ended...
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Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America: The Composers, Their Times, and Their Works

Book by Nicholas E. Tawa; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

Composers--United States, Music--United States--20th Century--History And Criticism

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...sarcastically as "one of the really famous Boston composers." 3 THE MUSICAL STYLE...In an America where other composers were making a tremendous...Griffes took the stance of a composer devoted to the cultivation...thought. He is an exceptional composer not simply because of his...written by the mainstream composers and shows affinities to...

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Journal Articles on: famous composers

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Frederic Chopin and Other Composers Tuberculotics - Pathography

Journal article by Darko Breitenfeld, Davor Kust, Vesna Turuk, Ivica Vucak, Danijel Buljan, Mara Zupanic, Marko Lucijanic; Alcoholism, Vol. 46, 2010

Subjects:

Chopin, Frederic (1810-49), Composers, Fever, Piano, Respiratory system

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...duration in the group of composers mentioned here of 48...noblewoman Justyne. That famous Polish composer and virtuoso pianist...was a very fruitful composer, and over 230 of his...adequate diagnosis. Other composers tuberculotics Jacobus...Tuberculosis. There are many famous composers, especially...
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Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line

Journal article by Elizabeth L. Keathley; Women & Music, Vol. 13, 2009

Subjects:

Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Composers--Works, Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth--Criticism and interpretation, Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth--Works, Music--Demographic aspects, Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Women musicians--Analysis

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...faculty and staff of the famous Columbia-Princeton Electronic...particularities of these composers lives as gendered beings...to write such a book: a composer herself, Hinkle-Turner...awareness of and access to the composers who are the subjects of...patterns. The variety of these composers experiences is so great...an electroacoustic music composer. One significant theme...
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Heine and the Composers

Journal article by Daniel Albright; Parnassus : Poetry in Review, Vol. 31, 2009

Subjects:

Composers, Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856), Literary criticism, Musical criticism, Poetry, Poets, Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...libretto, based on the famous case study by Oliver Sacks...Schumann, Britten, and other composers "tell" him where to go...specific meaning by the composer; to hear in it only pulse...the Heine clown. French composers, as well as German ones...known cycle by die Breton composer Guy Ropartz, Quatre poemes...it remarkable how often composers setting Heine, even when...
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Rethinking Authorship through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution

Journal article by Matthew Head; Women & Music, 2002

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Rethinking Authorship through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Book)

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...much musicological work has been composer-centered, focusing on the life and works of individual composers through editions and biography...Romantic anachronism the notion of a composers unmediated self-expression, we...discussing the relationship between composer and text beyond the idea of form...views held by contemporary female composers on the label "woman composer" itself, views reported by Citron...
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Yrjö Kilpinen: Finnish Composer and German Lieder in the 1930s1

Journal article by James Deaville; Intersections, Vol. 25, 2005

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers, Composition, Finland, Germany-pre-1945, Kilpinen, Yrjo, Musical criticism, Nazi era, Personal profiles

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...for the revised MGG, the composer not only promoted his music...foster ties with like-minded composers outside of Germany, and his...as a fellow Nordic master composer, there are other indications...almost come to blows with famous Finnish mathematician and...to Sibelius among Finnish composers, even in the hierarchies...

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Magazine Articles on: famous composers

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Composers and Their Music Come Alive in Magical Assembly

Magazine article by Debra L. Demiero; American Music Teacher, Vol. 51, December 2001

Subjects:

Composers--Works, Elementary schools--Social aspects, Music--Performance, Musical performance

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...members, posing as the famous composers students, each performs a piece by one of the composers. The selected pieces...students learn about composer John Williams. The...to interact with the composers and the performers...
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Franck after Franck: the Composer's Posthumous Fortunes

Magazine article by R. J. Stove; Musical Times, Vol. 152, Spring 2011

Subjects:

Composers, Musical recordings, Organ music

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...Scott Grover, the composers most recent biographer...Francks internationally famous and unswervingly active...unanswerably great composer had long since turned...newspaper-readers, the composers name had become sufficiently famous to ensure that a non...Ivess special favourite composer was Franck, whose...of Jeanne Rongiers famous portrait of Franck...
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Other Mahler, Other Schumanns: Women Composers Get a Hearing of Their Own

Magazine article by Tina Pamintuan; Humanities, Vol. 22, March 2001

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers, Feldman, Ann, Mentzer, Susanne, Radio programming, Women

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...canon of great classical composers. At a time when the annual...rock songwriters, female composers of classical music are still...century female classical composer felt hemmed in by societal...first female student of the famous composition instructor...peoples expectations of female composers. According to Christopher...
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Misunderstanding (George) Gershwin: The Composer Mixed Popular and Classical Idioms like No One before or since, and Performers Are Still Baffled

Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 282, October 1998

Subjects:

Composers, Gershwin, George, Music criticism

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...WHENEVER George Gershwin met a famous composer, so the stories...composer, no matter how famous. Stravinskys alleged response...historians barely mention the composer of "I Got Rhythm," whose...and popular--many other composers have done that--but because...primitive--worked for the composer in Europe, and he even promoted...During his lifetime European composers were far more sympathetic...
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Federico Mompou: Catalonian Composer Magnifico

Magazine article by Joseph Thomas Rawlins, Alberto Hernandez-Banuchi; American Music Teacher, Vol. 56, December 2006

Subjects:

Composers--Biography, Mompou, Federico--Biography

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Federico Mompou: Catalonian Composer Magnifico. by Joseph Thomas...Joseph Rawlins Catalonian composer Federico Mompou (1893-1987...introverted and enigmatic Spanish composers of the 20th century. His...9-years-old, he heard composer Gabriel Faure in concert...of recommendation from the famous pianist-composer Enrique...

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Newspaper Articles on: famous composers

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Culture Corner; Tchaikovsky Is Russia's Most Famous Composer and His Ballets, Such as Swan Lake, Remain Hugely Popular. but His Dramatic Themes Were at Odds with His Emotional Fragility, as a New, Month-Long BBC Season Reveals. by THOMAS KEMP

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 20, 2007

Subjects:

Composers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tchaikovsky Is Russias Most Famous Composer and His Ballets, Such...Petersburg where the composers ballets used to premiere...the place where the composer spent the last ten years...music. One of his most famous works is Romeo And Juliet...performs Tchaikovskys famous first piano concerto...
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Liszt Was the Elvis of Classical Music; as the RLPO Marks 10 Years of Its Partnership with Classic FM, Laura Davis Discovers the Strange Stories Behind Some of History's Most Famous Composers

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 1, 2010

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Some of Historys Most Famous Composers. Byline...you see the names of composers written down, they...the month. Hungarian composer Franz Liszt gets his...fingers." But the composers pride was to come before...Twain made that famous quote rumours of my...story about Russian composer Tchaikovsky - "a completely...
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Show Brings Dylan and Daniel Together Again in a New Way; Box Office Dylan Thomas and Daniel Jones Were the Best of Friends. Now the Famous Writer and Composer Are Being Remembered through a New Production. Karen Price Speaks to One of the Men Behind It

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 23, 2008

Subjects:

Composers, Marshall, Rob, Thomas, Dylan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Best of Friends. Now the Famous Writer and Composer Are Being Remembered through...their deaths, Dylan Thomas and composer Daniel Jones are being reunited...work. Actor Adrian Metcalfe and composer Rob Marshall are working together...
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Our Hand-Me-Downtons; as Chatelaine of TV's Most Famous Stately Home Hits out at Composer, Why Those Costumes Weren't Quite as Lavish as They Looked on Screen as Chatelaine of TV's Most Famous Stately Home Hits out at Composer, Why Those Costumes Weren't Quite as Lavish as They Looked on Screen

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 9, 2011

Subjects:

A Room with a View (Motion picture), Composers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Downtons; as Chatelaine of TVs Most Famous Stately Home Hits out at Composer, Why Those Costumes Werent Quite as...Looked on Screen as Chatelaine of TVs Most Famous Stately Home Hits out at Composer, Why Those Costumes Werent Quite as...
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Our Hand-Me-Downtons; as Chatelaine of TV's Most Famous Stately Home Hits out at Composer, Why Those Costumes Weren't Quite as Lavish as They Looked on Screen

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 9, 2011

Subjects:

A Room with a View (Motion picture), Composers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Our Hand-Me-Downtons; as Chatelaine of TVs Most Famous Stately Home Hits out at Composer, Why Those Costumes Werent Quite as Lavish as They Looked on Screen. Byline: Chris Hastings WHATEVER would the Dowager Countess...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: famous composers

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Hastings, Thomas , American Composer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HASTINGS, THOMAS , American composer 1784 1872, American composer, b. Washington, Conn. Of his hymns, Rock of Ages is most famous. He compiled several books of hymns, including Musica Sacra (1815) and Spiritual Songs (with Lowell Mason...
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John, Elton Hercules

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ELTON HERCULES 1947 , English popular singer, pianist, and composer, b. Reginald Kenneth Dwight. By the mid-1970s he had become famous presenting his own and other composers songs in spectacularly staged productions. His songs include...
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Glee

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1750 and 1830, after which time it was displaced by the part songs of the Victorian composers. Glorious Apollo by Samuel Webbe (1740 1816) was the most famous glee. Gentlemens glee societies were popular in England during the 18th cent., and...
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Newman, Arnold Abner

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Beach in 1942, moving to New York City in 1946. That year he made one his famous study of Igor Stravinsky , a photograph dominated by the curving black lid of the composers grand piano. Often working for Harpers Bazaar, Look, and above all Life...
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Dusek, Jan Ladislav

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...LADISLAV yan la deslaf doo shek, 1760 1812, Czech pianist and composer; pupil of C. P. E. Bach. One of the earliest piano virtuosi, he was famous for his lyrical touch in such pieces as Elegie harmonique. His piano sonatas foreshadow the works of romantic composers such as Brahms, Schumann, and Chopin...

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