American Women Composers before 1870

by Judith Tick, David Tick, Ruth Solie

Book Overview

First study of American women composers and attitudes towards women musicians in the nineteenth century.

Early American women composers are barely represented in standard reference works, yet their output constitutes a significant proportion of the bound sheet music in the collections in the New York Public Library, Yale University, Boston Public Library, and the New York Historical Society that form the basis of this study. Beginning with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878822594
• ISBN13: 9781878822598
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"