Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular & Sacred Music to 1900

Acknowledgments About the Companion Website Chapter 1. Introduction: "Half of Humanity has Something to Say, Also" Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft PART I: EARLY MUSIC FOR VOICE Chapter 2. Hildegard of Bingen, O ierusalem aurea civitas (ca. 1150-70) Varied Repetition in Hildegard's Sequence for St. Rupert: O ierusalem aurea civitas Jennifer Bain Chapter 3. Maddalena Casulana, "Per lei pos' in oblio" from Cinta di fior (1570) Finding the "Air" in Maddalena Casulana's Madrigals Peter Schubert Chapter 4. Barbara Strozzi, Appresso ai molli argenti (1659) Consolation Amid Barbarous Misfortune: Barbara Strozzi's Appresso ai molli argenti and the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Lament Richard Kolb and Barbara Swanson PART II: SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY KEYBOARD MUSIC Chapter 5. Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Sarabandes from the Suites in A minor (1687) and D minor (1707) In the Realm of All the Senses: Two Sarabandes by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Susan McClary Chapter 6. Marianna Martines, Sonata in A major, I (1765) "Zierlichkeit und Genie": Grace and Genius in Marianna Martines's Sonata in A major L. Poundie Burstein PART III: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIEDER AND PIANO MUSIC Chapter 7. Fanny Hensel, "Von dir, mein Lieb, ich scheiden muss" (1841) and "Ich kann wohl manchmal singen" (1846) Fanny Hensel's Schematic Fantasies; Or, The Art of Beginning Stephen Rodgers Chapter 8. Josephine Lang, "An einer Quelle" (1840/1853) and "Am Morgen" (1840) Josephine Lang's Multiple Settings of Poems by Christian Reinhold Köstlin Harald Krebs Chapter 9. Clara Schumann, "Liebst du um Schönheit" (1841) Multiply-Interrupted Structure in Clara Schumann's "Liebst du um Schönheit" Michael Baker Chapter 10. Amy Beach, "Phantoms," op. 15, no. 2 (1892) Gapped Lines and Ghostly Flowers in Amy Beach's "Phantoms," op. 15, no. 2 Edward D. Latham Glossary Bibliography Index