Karin Anna Pendle - Women & music : a history

The following resources are more general than the items listed at the end of each chapter or cover more than one period, country, or topic.

The New Grove series of dictionaries includes much information about women in all areas of music. Check for general articles on Women in Music as well as articles on particular women in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Of particular value is the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, ed. Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1995). Publishers are now working on second editions of these helpful reference books.

The second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart contains many articles on women. Short but informative articles can also be found in Riemann's Musiklexikon, Baker's Biographical Dictionary2, and Oscar Thompson's International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (11th edition, 1985). For information on women singers or singing actresses, try Enciclopedia dello spettacolo.

Indiana University Press publishes two anthologies of music by women, both ed. James Briscoe. The first, Historical Anthology of Music by Women (Bloomington, 1987), contains music from the twelfth through the twentieth centuries. The second, Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women (Bloomington, 1997), contains twentieth-century music in a variety of genres.

Barbara Garvey Jackson's ClarNan Editions publishes music by women from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, along with a few items from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her approach combines scholarly standards with practical issues of performance. Contact her at ClarNan Editions, 235 Baxter Lane, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

Sylvia Glickman and Martha Furman Schleifer are editors of a thirteen-volume anthology of music by women, Women Composers: Music through the Ages (New York: G. K. Hall, 1996 ). Volumes are in chronological order and contain music by women from medieval times to the present, along with helpful essays about each composer and the music in the anthology. Performing editions of all works in these volumes, along with many other works by women, are available from Hildegard Publishing Company in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Hildegard is also the American distributor for many scores of women's music from European publishers. Check their Web site at http://www.hildegard.com.

Da Capo Press has published much worthwhile music of women of the past in its Women Composers Series. Three recently initiated journals deal exclusively with women's music. The International Alliance of Women in Music Journal, a cross between journal and newsletter, is sent to IAWM members three times a year. The organization also publishes Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, which began in 1997. Copies are sent to members of IAWM free of charge in the fall of each year. Editor Barbara Harbach brings out a journal that, though small in size, contains valuable information on women composers and musicians; Women of Note Quarterly. Harbach's Vivace Press publishes music by women and men; for more information, consult the Web site: http://www.vivacepress.com.

The Leonarda record label issues works almost exclusively by women; their Web site is: http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/leonarda/

Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980; 2d ed., 2000.

Anderson, Bonnie S., and Judith P. Zinsser. A History of Their Own. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

Barkin, Elaine, and Lydia Hamessley, eds. Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music. Zurich and Los Angeles: Carciofoli, 1999.

Battersby, Christine. Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics. London: Women's Press, 1989; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Bergeron, Katherine, and Philip Bohlman, eds. Disciplining Music: Musicology and its Canons. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Blackmer, Corinne, and Patricia Julianna Smith. En travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Block, Adrienne Fried, and Carol Neuls-Bates. Women in American Music, a Bibliography of Music and Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.

Boenke, Heidi M. Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalogue. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Bowers, Jane, and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary Thomas, eds. Queering the Pitch. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Bridenthal, Renate, Claudia Koonz, and Susan Stuard, eds. Becoming Visible: Women in European History. 2d ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Carroll, Berenice A., ed. Liberating Women's History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976.

Chiti, Patricia Adkins. Donne in musica. Rome: Bulzoni, 1982. Also available in Spanish as Mujeres en la musica. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1994.

Christiansen, Rupert. Prima Donna: A History. New York: Viking, 1985.

Citron, Marcia. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Claghorn, Charles. Women Composers and Songwriters: A Concise Dictionary. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1996.

Clment, Catherine. Opera, or the Undoing of Women. Trans. Betsy Wing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

Cohen, Aaron. International Discography of Women Composers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.

. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2d ed. New York: Books and Music, 1987.

Cook, Susan, and Judy Tsou, eds. Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Cooper, Sarah, ed. Girls! Girls! Girls! Essays on Women and Music. New York: University Press, 1996.

Drinker, Sophie. Music and Women. New York: Coward-McCann, 1948; reprint, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.

Dunn, L. C., and N. A. Jones, eds. Embodied Voices. Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Edwards, H. Sutherland. The Prima Donna. New York: Da Capo Press, 1978.

Erickson, Mary. Women and Music: A Selective Bibliography on Women and Gender Issues in Music, 19871992. New York: G. K. Hall, 1995.

Farkas, Andrew. Opera and Concert Singers: An Annotated International Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets. New York: Garland, 1985.

Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora Guide to Women Composers. London: Pandora, 1994.

Gill, John. Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Goss, Madeleine. Modern Music Makers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1952.

Gourret, Jean, Jean Giraudeau, and Franois Lesure. Dictionnaire des cantatrices de l'Opra de Paris. Paris: Albatros, 1982.