Music and the Skillful Listener American Women Compose the Natural World

Name: Music and the Skillful Listener American Women Compose the Natural World
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ISBN: 9780253006622

ISBN-10: 0253006627

ISBN-13: 9780253006622

Edition: 2013

Authors: Denise Von Glahn

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Denise 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 writiers and argues that, like those of their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, Von Glahn skillfully employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.25" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Context for Composers: Within the Nature-Writing Tradition



Nature as a Summer Home



Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach)



Marion Bauer



Louise Talma



Nature All Around Us



Pauline Oliveros



Joan Tower



Ellen Taaffe Zwilich



Beyond the EPA and Earth Day



Victoria Bond



Libby Larsen



Emily Doolittle


Conclusions: The Repercussions of Listening


Notes


Bibliography


Index