Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Music History:

Women Composers and Scholars

(see also basic resources)
Anderson, Leslie N. "Women Film and Television Composers in the United States." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective vol. 3 (1986-1990), 353-370.

Block , Adrienne Fried. "The Child Is Mother of the Woman: Amy Beach's New England Upbringing." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 107-133. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Block, Adrienne Fried. "Why Amy Beach Succeeded as a Composer: The Early Years." Current Musicology 36 (1983), 41-59.

Brooks, Jeanice. "Nadia Boulanger and the Salon of the Princesse de Polignac." Journal of the American Musicological Society 46/3 (1993), 415-468. [Boulanger, salon music, Edmond de Polignac, France]

Canarina, John. "The Legendary Dame Ethyl Smyth." The Helicon Nine Reader, ed. Gloria Hickok, 228-228. Kansas City: Helicon Nine Editions, 1990.

Caputo, Virginia. "Silent canons: Places for music by women. In: "With a song in her heart": A celebration of Canadian women composers, 23-33. Windsor: Humanities Research Group, 1995.

Carpenter, Ellon DeGrief. "Women Music Scholars in the Soviet Union." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 3 (1986-1990), 456-516.

Chisolm, Rose Marie. "Analytical Approaches to Amy Beach's Piano Quintet in F# Minor." Indiana Theory Review 4 (1981), 41-53.

Citron, Marcia J. Cecile Chaminade: A Bio-Bibliography. Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Citron, Marcia J. "Publication and Music by Women." Sounds Australian Journal 40 (Summer 1993-1994), 19-21.

Citron, Marcia J. "Felix Mendelssohn's Influence on Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel as a Professional Composer." Current Musicology 37/38 (1984), 9-17.

Cook, Susan Carol. "The Career and Times of Irene Castle: Revolutions in Music and Manners." In 1789-1989: Musique, histoire, democratie, 363-372. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1992.

Curtis, Liane. "Rebecca Clarke and sonata form: questions of gender and genre." The Musical Quarterly 81/3 (Fall 1997), 393-429.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "'Thinking from Women's Lives': Francesco Caccini after 1627." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Deval, D. "Revolutionary Women: Music By, For, and About Women in Late 18th-Century London." RCM 92 (1995), 24-28.

Dixon, Gail. "The String Quartets of Barbara Pentland." Canadian University Music Review 11/2 (1991), 94-121.

Dopp, Bonnie Jo. "Numerology and Cryptography in the Music of Lili Boulanger: The Hidden Program in 'Clairière dans le ciel'." The Musical Quarterly 78(1994), 556-583.

Drakich, Janice D., Edward Kovarik and Ramona Lumpkin, eds. "With a Song in her Heart: A Celebration of Canadian Women Composers." Proceedings of the University of Windsor Conference, March 11-12, 1994. University of Windsor: Humanities Research Group, 1995.

Epstein, Selma. "Researching Piano Music by Black Women Composers." ILWC Journal (Oct. 1992), 24.

Evans, Allan. "Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening." Fanfare 15/5 (1992), 371-374.

Feldman, Ann E. "Being Heard: Women Composers and Patrons at the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition." Notes 47 (Sept. 1990), 7-20.

Gates, Eugene. "Where Are All the Women Composers?: Reclaiming a Cultural Heritage." Canadian Music Educator 35/5 (Spring 1994), 17-19.

Gates, Eugene. "Why Have There Been No Great Women Composers? Psychological Theories, Past and Present." The Journal of Aesthetic Education 28/2 (1994), 27-34.

Grattan, Virginia L. American Women Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Hamer, Janice. "Musgrave, Thea, Scottish Composer." Opera News 59 (1995), 20-23.

Hartig, Linda B. Violet Archer: A Bio-bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Hayes, Deborah. "Some Neglected Women Composers of the Eighteenth Century and Their Music." Current Musicology 39 (1985), 42-65.

Husby, Jane. "Potential for Fame: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, 1805-1847." Helicon Nine, 81-89.

Jackson, Barbara Garvey. "Oratorios by Command of the Emperor: The Music of Camilla de Rossi." Current Musicology 42 (1986), 7-19.

Killam, Rosemary N. "Cognitive Dissonances: should twentieth-century women composers be grouped with Foucault's mad criminals?" Music Theory Online 3/2(1997).

Kimberlin, Cynthia Tse. "'And Are You Pretty?': Choice, Perception and Reality in Pursuit of Happiness." In Music, Gender, and Culture, ed. Marcia Herndon and Susanne Ziegler. New York: Peters, 1990.[San Francisco Bay women composers]

Kivi, K. Linda. Canadian Women Making Music. Toronto: Green Dragon Press, 1992.

Macdonald, Claudia. "Critical Perception and the Woman Composer: The Early Reception of Piano Concertos by Clara Wieck Schumann and Amy Beach." Current Musicology 55 (1993), 24-55.

McNamee, Ann . "Analyses of music by women composers." A multimedia site which includes an analysis of Piano Sonata II (1953) by Grazyna Bacewicz, originally published in Music Theory Online 0.4, September 1993.

Marshall, Kimberly. "Symbols, Performers, and Sponsors: Female Musical Creators in the Late Middle Ages." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall, 140-168. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Mathiesen, Penelope. "Winds of Yore--Women Woodwind Composers of the 18th Century: Jane Mary Guest." Continuo 15/4 (1991, 6-9.

Miller, Bonny H. "Ladies' Companion, Ladies' Canon? Women Composers in American Magazines from Godey's to the Ladies' Home Journal." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 156-182. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Pasler, Jann. "The ironies of gender, or virility and politics in the music of Augusta Holmes." Women & Music 2 (1998), 1-25.

Plaut, Linda B. "Grazyna Bacewicz." Women of Note Quarterly 2 (August 1994), 1-5.

Rabson, Carolyn. "Women's Contributions to Music Scholarship." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 3 (1986-1990), 238-292.

Raessler, Daniel M. "Jane Mary Guest." The Music Review 49 (1988), 247-53.

Randall, Annie Janeiro. "Barbara Garvey Jackson: First Generation Feminist Scholar and Publisher of Music by Women." Music Research Forum 8 (1993), 38-43.

Reich, Nancy B. Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Richardson, Cynthia and Catherine Smith. Mary Carr Moore, American Composer. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1987.

Ripley, Collette S. "The Chorale Preludes of Ethel Smyth." The American Organist 27/7 (1993), 56.

Robinson, Susan. "Unmasking Peggy Glanville-Hicks." International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 2 (June 1996), 4-7.

Samuel, Rhian. "Women Composers Today: A Personal View." Contact 32 (1988), 53-54.

Schnepel, J. "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Symphony No. 1: Developing Variation in the 1980's." Indiana Theory Review 10 (1989): 1-19.

Simpson, Anne Key. "Two Outstanding Afro-American Women Composers: Florence Price and Margaret Bonds." New Journal For Music 1/2 (1990), 57-75.

Smart, Mary Ann. "Verdi Sings Erminia Frezzolini." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 33-45.

Smith, Catherine Parsons. "Athena at the Manuscript Club: John Cage and Mary Carr Moore." The Musical Quarterly 79 (1995), 351-67.

Straus, Joseph Nathan. The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Taylor, Timothy D. "The Gendered Construction of the Musical Self: The Music of Pauline Oliveros." The Musical Quarterly 77 (1993), 385-396.

Tick, Judith. Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Tillard, Francoise; Trans. by Naish, Camille. Fanny Mendelssohn. Portland, OR: Amadeus, 1996.

Walker-Hill, Helen. "Black Women Composers in Chicago: Then and Now." Black Music Research Journal 12/1 (1992), 1-23.

Walker-Hill, Helen. "Discovering the Music of Black Women Composers." American Music Teacher 40/1 (1990), 20-23, 63.

Walker-Hill, Helen. "Music by Black Women Composers at the American Music Research Center." American Music Research Center Journal 2 (1992), 23-52.

Wilkins, Margaret Lucy and Caroline Askew. "The University of Huddersfield Department of Music Project: Women composers, 12th-20th centuries." British Journal of Music Education 10/3 (1993), 181-187.

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