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Subject Bibliography: Women in Music

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | Bibliographies | Books | Musical Anthologies and Scores | Sound Recordings | Video Recordings | Periodicals | Internet Resources

The following list of resources on women in music is held in the collections of the SMSU Music Library in Ellis Hall or on the World Wide Web. This is not a complete list of holdings on this topic. More materials are available by searching the online catalog.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Grattan, Virginia L. American Women Songwriters: a biographical dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. REF ML106 .U3 G73 1993

The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Edited by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. REF ML105 .N67x 1995

The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers . Edited by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. NY: Groves Dictionaries, 1994. REF ML105 .N38x 1994

Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd edition. NY: Books & Music, 1987. REF ML105 .C7 1987 (2 vols.)

Claghorn, Gene. Women Composers and Songwriters: a concise biographical dictionary. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1996. REF ML105 .C593 1996


Bibliographies

Boenke, Heidi M. Flute Music by Women Composers: an annotated catalog. NY: Greenwood Pr., 1988. REF ML128 .F7 B6 1988

Ericson, Margaret D. Women and Music:a selective annotated bibliography on women and gender issues in music, 1987-1992. NY: G.K. Hall, 1996. REF ML128 .W7 E75 1996

Block, Adrienne Fried and Carol Neuls-Bates. Women in American Music: a bibliography of music and literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. REF ML128 .W7 B6

Hixon, Don L. and Don A. Hennessee. Women in Music: an encyclopedic biobibliography. Second edition. 2 vol. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1993. REF ML105 .H6 1993

Skowronski, JoAnn. Women in American Music: a bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Pr., 1978. REF ML128 .W756

Jackson, Barbara Garvey. Say Can You Deny Me: a guide to surviving music by women from the 16th century through the 18th century. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994. REF ML128 .W7 J3 1994

Meggett, Joan M. Keyboard Music by Women Composers: a catalog and bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981. REF  ML128 .K5 M43x 1981

Citron, Marcia J. Cécile Chaminade: a bio-bibliography. NY: Greenwood Press, 1988. REF ML134 .C425 C6 1988

Hartig, Linda. Violet Archer: a bio-bibliography. NY: Greenwood Press, 1991. REF ML134 .A68 H3 1991

Bortin, Virginia. Elinor Remick Warren: a bio-bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. REF ML134 .W32 B7 1993

Fuss, Charles J. Joan Baez: a bio-bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. REF ML134.5 .B33 F87 1996

Bryan, George B. Ethel Merman: a bio-bibliography. NY: Greenwood Press, 1992. REF ML134.5 .M47 B8 1992

Rivadue, Barry. Mary Martin: a bio-bibliography. NY: Greenwood Press, 1991. REF ML134.5 .M37 R6 1991

Walker-Hill, Helen. Piano Music by Black Women Composers: a catalog of solo and ensemble works. REF ML128 .P3 W3 1992

Books

Ammer, Christine. Unsung: a history of women in American music. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1980. ML82 .A45

Bayton, Mavis. Frock Rock: women performing popular music. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. ML3492 .B39 1998.

Berdes, Jane L. Women Musicians of Venice: musical foundations, 1525-1855. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993. ML290.8 .V26 B47 1993

Block, Adrienne Fried. Amy Beach, passionate Victorian : the life and work of an American composer, 1867-1944. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. ML410 .B36 B56 1998

Bobko, Jane, ed. Vision: the life and music of Hildegard von Bingen. NY: Penguin, 1995. ML410 .H618 V57 1995

Brown, Jeanell Wise. Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music: biography, documents, style. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1994. ML410. B36 B76 1994

Bowers, Jane and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music: the western art tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1985. ML82 .W67 1985

Bufwack, Mary A. and Robert K. Oermann.  Finding Her Voice: the saga of women in country music. NY: Crown, 1993. ML3524 .B83 1993

Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge (England): Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993. ML3890 .C58 1993

Cook, Susan C. and Judy Tsou, eds. Cecilia Reclaimed: feminist perspective on gender and music. Urbana: Univ. of Ill. Press, 1994. ML82 .C42 1994

Cooper, Sarah. Girls! Girls! Girls! : Essays on women and music. New York: NYU Press, 1996. ML82 .G57 1996

Davis, Angela Yvonne. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. NY: Pantheon Books, 1998. ML3521 .D355 1998

Dunn, Leslie C. and Nancy A. Jones, eds. Embodied Voices: representing female vocality in Western culture. NY: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994. ML82 .E55 1994

Giglio, Virginia. Southern Cheyenne Women's Songs. Norman, OK: Univ. of OK Press, 1994. ML3557 .G53 1994

Green, Lucy. Music, Gender, Education. NY: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. ML82 .G74 1997

Hyde, Derek. New Found Voices: women in nineteenth-century English music. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. ML286.4 .H93 1998

Jones, Hettie. Big Star Fallin' Mama: five women in black music. NY: Viking, 1974. ML82 .J65

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. NY: Greenwood, 1987. ML82 .W63 1987

Little Coyote, Bertha. Leaving Everything Behind: the songs and memories of a Cheyenne Woman. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1997. ML420 .L772 A3 1997

Leonardi, Susan J. and Rebecca A. Pope. The Diva's Mouth:body, voice. prima donna politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1996. ML82 .L45 1996

Marshall, Kimberly, ed.. Discovering Muses: women's musical traditions. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1993. ML82 .R43 1993

McCutchen, Ann. The Muse that Sings: composers speak about the creative process. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ML430 .M33 1999

O'Brien, Lucy. She Bop: the definitive history of women in rock, pop, and soul. NY: Penguin Books, 1995. ML82 .O27 1995

Pendle, Karin. Women & Music: a history. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1991. ML82 .W6 1991

Pool, Jeannie G. Handbook, Teaching the History of Women in Music. Northridge: California State Univ., Northridge Music Dept., 1986. ML128 .W7 P66x 1986

Solie, Ruth A., ed. Musicology and Difference: gender and sexuality in music scholarship. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1993. ML3838 .M96 1993

Tillard, Françoise. Fanny Mendelssohn. Trans. Camille Naish. Portland: Amadeus Press, 1996. ML410 .H482 T513 1996

Vander, Judith. Songprints: the musical experience of five Shoshone women. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988. ML3557 .V36 1988

Wolff, Francie. Give the Ballot to the Mothers: songs of the suffragists: a history in song. Springfield, MO: Denlinger's Pub., 1998. ML3551 .W65x 1998

Woodworth, Marc, ed. Solo: women singer-songwriters in their own words. New York: Delta, 1998. ML385 .S593 1998

Musical Anthologies and Scores

American Keyboard Music 1866 through 1910. ed. by Sylvia Glickman. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990. M2.3 .U6 T5 1989

Women Composers: music through the ages. Edited by Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman. NY: G.K. Hall, 1996. (5 volumes) M2 .W88 1996

Historical Anthology of Music by Women . Edited by James R. Briscoe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987. M2 .H68 1987

Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women. Edited by James R. Briscoe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. M2 .C77 1997

Beach, Amy. Twenty-three songs. NY: G. Schirmer, 1992. FOLIO M1620 .B3652 1992

Straus, Joseph N., ed. Music by Women for Study and Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1993. MT6.5 .M84 1993

Strozzi, Barbara. Cantate, Ariete a una, due, e tre voci, opus 3. Mdison, WI: A-R Editions, 1997. M2 .R238 vol.83 (CD5208)

Sound Recordings

Undine Smith Moore: an autobiographical sketch by the eminent black American composer. (cassette) CT141

Amy Beach. Grand Mass in E-Flat Major. CD1990

Barbara Harbach. 18th-Century Harpsichord Music By Women Composers. CD1989

Bay Area Women's Philharmonic. Baroquen Treasures. CD1992

Hensel, Fanny: Klavierwerke. CD3643-44

Hildegard von Bingen. A Feather on the Breath of God. CD1991

Hildegard von Bingen. Vision: the music of Hildegard von Bingen. CD5041

Macalester Trio. Chamber Works by Women Composers. CD1993-1994

Schumann, Clara. Completely Clara. CD4425

Schumann, Clara. Sämtliche Lieder. CD4428

Pupils of Clara Schumann. CD4503

Tan, Margaret Leng. Sonic Encounters. CD1410

Women at an Exposition: music composed by women and performed at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. CD3495

Video Recordings

American Women Conductors and Composers in Performance. In Process

West Coast Women Conductors and Composers in Performance. In Process

Bessie Smith. VC 301

The Songs Are Free: Bernice Johnson Reagon and African-American Music. VC302

Hildegard. VC152

Maria: a film about Maria Callas. VC14

Maria Callas: Hamburg Concert, 1959. VC157

Maria Callas: Life and Art.  VC105

Stratasphere: a portrait of Teresa Stratas.  VC299

Shirley Verrett: A Film Biography of the Black Diva. VC298

Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday. VC297

Women in Rock. In Process


Periodicals

Women of Note Quarterly

IAWM Journal


Internet Resources

Society of Women in Music

Ladyslipper Music

Muse: the journal of women in music

She's Got the Beat: women in music

Women in Music National Network

Hildegard Publishing Company

Vivace Press

International Association of Women in Music

Women's Philharmonic

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