The Composer, Herself

1. Introduction: The 'Post-Feminist' Moment in Contemporary Classical Music; Lina Kouvaras.- Part 1: Activist Musical Projects and Intersectional Collaborations.- 2. Borrowing from the Bard: Ruler of the Hive; Melody Eotvos.- 3. Letters to Clara: A Contemporary Composer's Homage to a Women Pioneer; Natalie Williams.- 4. Carnivals of Voice, Musical Playgrounds: Music from Text in Works of Andree Greenwell; Andree Greenwell.- 5. Holding, Handling, Moulding and Setting the Inner Thoughts of Another in Hidden Thoughts; Katy Abbott.- 6. Walking the Line: Emancipating the Complex Female Voice in Recent Operas; Missy Mazzoli.- 7. Democracy and Collective Composition; Cathy Milliken.- 8.Harmonia Mundi: Creating a New Work of Music Theatre to speak to the Current World Chaos; Judith Clingan.- 9. Blocking Out Noise: Metamorphosis and Identity in the Recent Chamber Music of Vivian Fung; Vivian Fung.- 10. An overview of My Compositional Practice and Collaborations into China; Rachel Walker.- 11. Luck, Grief, Hospitality: Re-Routing Power Relationships in Music; Liza Lim.- 12. In Search of the Artistic Moment: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and 'The Space Between' from an Australian Screen.- Composer's Perspective; Yantra De Vilder.- Part 2: Philosophical and Phenomenological Dimensions of Time.- 13. Finding Time, Finding Space: An Autoethnography of Compositional Praxis; Christine mcCombe.- 14. A Compositional Life in Time: The Recent Operas of Elena Kats-Chernin; Elena Kats-Chernin.- 15. Einstein's Dream: At the Threshold between Science and Art; Cindy McTee.- 16. The Pendulum Process: Point of Balance; Mary Finsterer.- 17. Gravity and Gravitas: Time, Passion, and Inevitability in the Music of Shulamit Ran; Shulamit Ran.- 18. Low Frequency as Concept in the Music of Cat Hope; Cat Hope.- 19. A Drone Opera Recast: Threat, Allure, Promise; Susan Frykberg.- Part 3: Music Awakenings: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward.- 20: Composing the Rolls-Royce: A Composer's Adventures in Orchestral Composition; Maria Grenfell.- 21.Finding a Reason: A Composer's Pathway Forged through Social Justice Advocacy; Kathleen McGuire.- 22.'I'm A Type Triple-A Composer!' Augusta Read Thomas.- 23. How My Music is Made: 'Tantot Libre, Tantot Recherche'; Nicola LeFanu.- 25. The Mirror: A Novel in Reflections; Lera Auerbach.- 26.Sometimes Dreams do Come True: Thea Musgrave's Exploration of Dramatic-Abstract Forms in her Instrumental Music;.- 27. My Awakening as a Composer: No Adjective; Judith Lang, Zaimont.- 28. Epilogue