The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers

Bys: Sadie, Julie Anne and Samuel, Rhian

Book Overview

In recognition of these nearly invisible yet greatly talented musicians, Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel have brought together an international corps of experts to produce The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers . This definitive source provides detailed biographies of more than 1,000 creators of Western classical music. In signed articles, the Dictionary chronicles the lives and works of women composers from all corners of the world. Here you can read about the Medieval mystic Hildgard von Bingen, the Renaissance madrigalist Maddalena Casulana, the flamboyant seventeenth-century vocal composer Barbara Strozzi, the prolific New Englander Amy Beach, and the Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393034879
• ISBN13: 9780393034875
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.5" x 6.5"