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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:23:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Erin Walsh <E-Walsh(a)neiu.edu>
To: Conductors <choralist(a)lists.colorado.edu>
Subject: Women Composers results
First, thank you all for your GENEROUS responses to my request for
information anout women composers of choral music. What a thrill to
receive responses from conductors and women composers from all over the
world! Here is the compilation of what was sent plus one or two
additions. There are 5 sections: COMPOSERS; LIVING COMPOSERS w/CONTACT;
GENERAL WEB SITES; PUBLISHERS; BOOKS; and OTHER REFERENCES (lectures,
etc.). I'm sure I've left some out of the living composers category but
these were just a few who offered other means of contact (there are more
copmosers subscribed to this list). And the dates were included only for
the few for whom I had definite dates.
COMPOSERS:
Rafaella Aleotti Ascendit in Christum altum
The Ascension of Christ
Ann Kapp Andersen
Margaret Bonds
Lili Boulanger "Psalm 130 ("De profundis"/"Du
fond de l'abime") for SATB chorus,
mezzo solo and full orchestra
Alicia Carpenter
Nancy Hill Cobb A Milkmaid's Fable: Alliance Music
Psalm of Constancy:Hinshaw Music
Antiphon of Praise:Hinshaw Music
Gloria In Excelsis Deo:Gentry Pub.
The Seven Last Words
(Cantata for Chorus and Chamber Orchestra)
Emily Crocker
Margaret Cromie
Eleanor Daley Requiem
Mabel Daniels
Emma Lou Diemer "The Lord is Mindful"; Sweet Dreams Form a
Shade"; "There was the Door to Which I
Found No Key"(Boosey & Hawkes)
Olive Dungan
Nina Gilbert (20th C.)
Lou Harrison (20th C.) Mass to St. Anthony
Winnagene Hatch
Hildegard von Bingen (12th C.)
Mary Howe
Ruth Huber
Doreen Irwin
Betsy Jolas
Patricia King
Libby Larsen Canticle of Mary; Missa Gaia
Isabella Leonarda (Baroque)
Ester Magi (Estonia, 20th C.)
Jane Marshall Seen and Unseen
Holly Near (20th C.) Perfect Night SSA arr. Moore
Anna Laura Page
Alice Parker (20th C.)
Zollene Reissner
Denise Rippentropp
Jean Ritchie
Sharon Elery Rogers
Hildigunnur Runarsdottir (Iceland,20th C.)
Williametta Spencer (20th C.)
Linda Spevacek "Seasons"
"American Folk Rhapsody 2"
Julia Smith
Ethel M. Smyth (Britain, 20th C.) Der Wald (The Forest)
Ginger Starling
Naomi Stephan
Karen P. Thomas (20th C.)
Diane Trotter Worthy and High Praise
Judith Zaimont (20th C.)
Leora Zimmer
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
LIVING COMPOSERS w/CONTACT
Karen P. Thomas
4426 1st NW
Seattle, WA 98107
kpthomas1(a)aol.com
Estonian Music Information Center (re: Ester Magi, womon composer)
Lauteri 7 EE0001
Tallinn Estonia
Emily Crocker
www.jwpepper.com for more info
Judith Zaimont
http://206.147.225.2/jzaimont
Hildigunnur Runaredottir of Iceland
jls(a)vortex.is
GENERAL WEB SITES
Women Composers' Web site
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7282/women.html
gopher://silver.sdsmt.edu:70/00/pub/choralnet/repertory/
womens_rep/VoicTitlComp
Choralnet site
ACDA Women's Chorus Repertoire List. 1996 edition available on line at
<http://www.mjhubbard.com/disco.html>;
International Alliance for Women in Music
<http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/home.html>;
Musica Database
PUBLISHERS
Vivace Press
PO Box 157
Readfield, WI 54969-0157
1-800-543-5429
yordy(a)vivacepress.com
http://www.vivacepress.com
Editions Ars Femina
(music by women of the late Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras)
PO Box 7692
Louisville, Kentucky 40257-0692
http://pages.nyu.edu/~whitwrth/ArsFemina.html
Arsis Press
(concert and sacred music by women)
170 N.E. 33rd Street
Fort Lauderdale, FLA 33334
Tel: 954-563-1844, Fax: 954-563-9006
Email: evercoe(a)compuserve.com.
http://www.InstantWeb.com/~arsis
ArtsVenture
1815 Carr Ave.
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
ffss(a)alaska.edu
Broude Brothers (for $12.50 for packet of 22 pieces by women composers)
141 White Oaks Road
Williamstown, MA 01267
Phone: 800-525-8559
Fax: 413-458-8131
broude(a)sover.net
Earthsongs
(Global and earth-centered music)
220 NW 29th street
Corvallis, OR 97330
541-758-5760
earthsngs(a)aol.com (yes, omit the "o")
Furore Verlag
(devoted almost exclusively to music by women composers)
Diane Holsmann
Furore Verlag
Naumburger Str. 40
D-34127 Kassel
Germany
Tel. 0049/(0)561/897352
Fax 0049/(0)561/83452
email: FuroreVerlag.Kassel(a)t-online.de
Hildegard Publishing Company
(past and present women composers)
Box 332
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
phone 610-649-8649
hhtp://www.hildegard.com
Ladyslipper Music (recordings by women)
Phone: (919) 383-8773
Fax: (919) 383-3525
Toll-free orders: (800) 634-6044
Email: info(a)ladyslipper.org
Treble Clef Music
(Medieval to 20th Century women composers)
415 Wesley Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-1521
919-932-5455
mlycancelf(a)aol.com
World Music Press
("Intercultural Understanding through Music")
PO Box 2565
Danbury, CT 06813
800-810-2040
Yelton Rhodes Press
(Lesbian and Gay composers)
PO Box 46249
Los Angeles, CA 90046
888-497-68742
www.yrmusic.com
American Music Center
(perusal scores and catalogs available)
30 west 26th St., Suite 1001
NY, NY 10010
center(a)amc.net
hhtp://www.amc.net/amc/index.html
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1J9
cmc(a)interlog.com hhtp://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/cmc
Theodore Front Music (publisher of women composer's catalogue) Christine
Clark, Vice President.
<71431.1732(a)compuserve.com>
Women's Choral Music Series for Roger Dean Publishers
Janet Galvan, editor
<galvanj(a)ithaca.edu>
Other publishers which have been helpful (to one choralist member) in
sending lists and information on choral compositions by women composers:
Alliance, Artemesia Editions, Boosey, ECS, Laurendale, Mark Foster,
Oxford, Santa Barbara Music, Barton Rhodes
BOOKS
"Choral Music in Print" by James Laster
Bowers, Jane and Tick, Judith, eds. Women Making Music: The Western Art
Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana and Chicago. University of Illinois Press.
1987.
Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge. Cambridge
University Press. 1993.
Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Volume 1
& 2. 2nd edition. New York. Books and Music (U.S.A.) Inc. 1987.
Cooper, Sarah, ed. Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music. New
York. New York University Press. 1966.
Drinker, Sophie. The Story of Women in their Relation to Music. New
York. Howard-McCann, Inc. 1948.
Drinker, Sophie. Music and Women. New York. The Feminist Press. 1995.
Ericson, Margaret D. Women and Music: A Selective Annotated Bibliography
on Women and Gender Issues in Music, 1987-1992. New York. G. K. Hall.
1995. (Twelve volumes to be issued between 1995-1999).
Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the
United States 1629-Present. San Francisco. Harper Collins. 1994.
Glickman, Sylvia and Schleifer, Martha Furman. Women Composers: Music
Through the Ages, Volume I: Composers Born Before 1600. New York. G.
Hall & Co. 1996.
Jackson, Barbara Harvey. Say Can You Deny Me: A Guide to Surviving Music
by Women from the 16th through the 18th Centuries.. University of
Arkansas Press. 1994.
Jezic, Diane Peacock. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found. 2nd
edition. New York. The Feminist Press. 1994.
Marshall, Kimberly, ed. Rediscovering the Muses: Women
Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed. Women in Music: An anthology of Source Readings
from the Middle Ages to the Present. Boston. Northeastern University
Press. Revised Edition. 1996.
Pendle, Karin, ed.
Women and Music: A History.
Bloomington and Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. 1991.
Roma, Catherine
The Choral Music of Twentieth Century Women Composers.
Greenwood Press. 1996.
Sadie, Julie Anne and Samuel, Rhian, eds.
The Norton/Grove Dictionary ofWomen Composers.
New York. W.W. Norton & Company. 1994.
OTHER REFERENCES
Prof. Michele Edwards of Macalester College, whose bibliographic area is
choral music by women composers
Texas MENC handbook or NYSMA handbook, both probably at any local high
school music department
Library of Congress Copyright Office
(202) 707-3000
ACDA Women's Chorus Repertoire Exchange
Ruth Ballenger, Coordinator.
<rbdiva(a)earthlink.net>
Sandra Willetts, Director of Choral Activities (a) University of Alabama
1995 ACDA lecture on Women Composers of Choral Music
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:24:59 -0800 (PST)
From: "Monica J. Hubbard" <mhubbard(a)cco.caltech.edu>
Subject: Women in Music - Long message
I would like to mention a few
resources for those interested in women in music and choral music by women
composers. For every one item, there are five more out there but I have
to get back to work, so forgive any glaring omissions! In no particular
order:
Theodore Front Music; publisher of women composer's catalogue. Christine
Clark, Vice President. <71431.1732(a)compuserve.com>
Women's Choral Music Series for Roger Dean Publishers, Janet Galvan,
editor. <galvanj(a)ithaca.edu>
Women's Choral Music Series for Earthsongs Music, Nancy Menk, editor.
<Earthsngs(a)aol.com>
Hildegard Music Press; Sylvia Glickman, Editor. <www.hildegard.com>
Treble Clef Music Press, Mary Lycan, Editor. <MLycanClef(a)aol.com>
(Other publishers which have been helpful to me in sending lists and
information on choral compositions by women composers: Alliance,
Artemesia Editions, Boosey, ECS, Laurendale, Mark Foster, Oxford, Santa
Barbara Music, Barton Rhodes and Yelton Rhodes Music. For addresses,
check the publisher links on ChoralNet <www.choralnet.org> or use a search
engine such as Yahoo or Alta Vista.
ACDA established a repertoire and standards committee for women's choirs
in 1980 to assist in locating quality repertoire for women's choirs,
including music by women composers.
ACDA Women's Chorus Repertoire Exchange: Ruth Ballenger, Coordinator.
<rbdiva(a)earthlink.net>
ACDA Women's Chorus Repertoire List. 1996 edition available on line at
<http://www.mjhubbard.com/disco.html>; and also on
ChoralNet <www.choralnet.org> in the references/research section (CRS).
Every Repertoire and Standards Chair for Women's Choirs in ACDA
has a copy of the 1998 edition of the Women's Chorus Repepertoire List.
Find your division chair in the ACDA R&S site.
<http://www.acdaonline.org/R&S/>;
The College Music Society sponsors frequent professional development
presentations. Here is one such offering. January 30-Feb. 1: "Women and
Gender in Music", University of Texas, Austin, Texas. <www.music.org>
International Alliance for Women in Music has an extensive web site with
numerous links to historical and modern women composers.
<http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/home.html>;
And a few reference books:
Bowers, Jane and Tick, Judith, eds. Women Making Music: The Western Art
Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana and Chicago. University of Illinois Press.
1987.
Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge. Cambridge
University Press. 1993.
Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Volume 1
& 2. 2nd edition. New York. Books and Music (U.S.A.) Inc. 1987.
Cooper, Sarah, ed. Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music. New
York. New York University Press. 1966.
Drinker, Sophie. The Story of Women in their Relation to Music. New
York. Howard-McCann, Inc. 1948.
Drinker, Sophie. Music and Women. New York. The Feminist Press. 1995.
Ericson, Margaret D. Women and Music: A Selective Annotated Bibliography
on Women and Gender Issues in Music, 1987-1992. New York. G. K. Hall.
1995. (Twelve volumes to be issued between 1995-1999).
Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the
United States 1629-Present. San Francisco. Harper Collins. 1994.
Glickman, Sylvia and Schleifer, Martha Furman. Women Composers: Music
Through the Ages, Volume I: Composers Born Before 1600. New York. G. K.
Hall & Co. 1996.
Jackson, Barbara Harvey. Say Can You Deny Me: A Guide to Surviving Music
by Women from the 16th through the 18th Centuries.. University of
Arkansas Press. 1994.
Jezic, Diane Peacock. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found. 2nd
edition. New York. The Feminist Press. 1994.
Marshall, Kimberly, ed. Rediscovering the Muses: Women
Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed. Women in Music: An anthology of Source Readings
from the Middle Ages to the Present. Boston. Northeastern University
Press. Revised Edition. 1996.
Pendle, Karin, ed. Women and Music: A History. Bloomington and
Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. 1991.
Roma, Catherine. The Choral Music of Twentieth Century Women Composers.
Greenwood Press. 1996.
Sadie, Julie Anne and Samuel, Rhian, eds. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of
Women Composers. New York. W.W. Norton & Company. 1994.
There is interest in programming choral music by women composers. There
are resources. There is a need for continued research to help conductors
learn about neglected choral music and new publications by women
composers. Hope this helps get folks started.
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:07:26 -0600
From: Jane Ramseyer Miller <breckmiller(a)MTN.org>
Subject: Re: Women Composer Resources
Thanks for the list of resources, Monica. I'm going to include another list
with this posting since the contact information is more complete. I just
finished compiling this one as a resource for the GALA Director's Meeting
(Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses) next weekend. Thanks to Michelle
Edwards and a bunch of internet sites I was able to finally track down
address, phone and e-mail addresses for nearly all of these publishers.
I've had great sucess working with many of them.
Editions Ars Femina
(music by women of the late Renaissance,
Baroque and Classical eras)
PO Box 7692
Louisville, Kentucky 40257-0692
http://pages.nyu.edu/~whitwrth/ArsFemina.html
Arsis Press
(concert and sacred music by women)
170 N.E. 33rd Street
Fort Lauderdale, FLA 33334
Tel: 954-563-1844, Fax: 954-563-9006
Email: evercoe(a)compuserve.com.
http://www.InstantWeb.com/~arsis
ArtsVenture
1815 Carr Ave.
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
ffss(a)alaska.edu
Broude Brothers (for $12.50 can order a packet of 22 pieces by women composers)
141 White Oaks Road
Williamstown, MA 01267
Phone: 800-525-8559
Fax: 413-458-8131
broude(a)sover.net
Earthsongs
(Global and earth-centered music)
220 NW 29th street
Corvallis, OR 97330
541-758-5760
earthsngs(a)aol.com (yes, omit the "o")
Furore Verlag
(devoted almost exclusively to music by women composers)
Diane Hülsmann
Furore Verlag
Naumburger Str. 40
D-34127 Kassel
Germany
Tel. 0049/(0)561/897352
Fax 0049/(0)561/83452
email: FuroreVerlag.Kassel(a)t-online.de
Hildegard Publishing Company
(past and present women composers)
Box 332
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
phone 610-649-8649
hhtp://www.hildegard.com
Ladyslipper Music (recordings by women)
Phone: (919) 383-8773
Fax: (919) 383-3525
Toll-free orders: (800) 634-6044
Email: info(a)ladyslipper.org
Treble Clef Music
(Medieval to 20th Century women composers)
415 Wesley Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-1521
919-932-5455
mlycancelf(a)aol.com
World Music Press
("Intercultural Understanding through Music")
PO Box 2565
Danbury, CT 06813
800-810-2040
Yelton Rhodes Press
(Lesbian and Gay composers)
PO Box 46249
Los Angeles, CA 90046
888-497-68742
www.yrmusic.com
American Music Center
(perusal scores and catalogs available)
30 west 26th St., Suite 1001
NY, NY 10010
center(a)amc.net
hhtp://www.amc.net/amc/index.html
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1J9
cmc(a)interlog.com hhtp://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/cmc
Library of Congress Copyright Office
(202) 707-3000
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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 23:32:06 -0600
From: Sylvele(a)aol.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <choralist(a)lists.colorado.edu>
Subject: women's choral music
Thanks to all of my colleagues on Choralist who responded to my request for
help regarding music written by women composers. Although there were many,
many pieces to select from, I would recommend the following for
consideration by those who
would like to program a few compositions by women:
O pastor animarum by Hildegard von Bingen (Hildegard Press)
Hor che la vaga Aurora by Vittoria Aleiotti (Broude Bros)
Ave Regina caelorum by Isabella Leonarda (Broude Bros)
Con le belle non ci vuol fretta by Barbara Strozzi (Broude Bros)
Sechs Geistliche Lieder by Louise Reichardt (SSAA) (Broude Bros)
Gartenlieder by Fanny Hensel (Earthsongs)
Hymne au Soleil by Lili Boulanger (G. Schirmer)
Lonesome Traveler by Gwyneth Walker (E.C. Schirmer)
Primrose by Libby Larsen (E.C. Schirmer)
Picking Apples by Libby Larsen (E.C. Schirmer)
The Maggie Hunter by Ruth Watson Henderson (G. Thompson)
Give God the Glory by Judith Baity (Lawson-Gould)
Turkey in the Straw arr. Alice Parker (Hinshaw)
God is Love by Emma Lou Diemer (Arsis)
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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 19:18:22 -0600
From: "C. M. Shearer" <CSHEARER(a)kentvm.kent.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <choralist(a)lists.colorado.edu>
Subject: Women Composers
Greetings neighbor. I wanted to send you some information about a woman
composer which you may be interested in for your list. I noticed, however,
that you have a work by her on your list already. The name is Vittoria
Aleotti. Vittoria is the name she used for her secular pieces. She became
a nun and went by the name Raffaela. All the works she wrote which are sacred
(i.e., motets) use the name Raffaela Aleotti. Several works by Vittoria
and Raffaela are published by Broude Brothers. If you'd like more information
on Aleotti, you might want to check with Dr. Ann Carruthers who is on our
faculty. She is on the Internet, so you can email her at <ccarruth(a)kentvm.
kent.edu>. She wrote her dissertation on Aleotti, is the editor of the pieces
published by Broude, and is the editor of a volume of Aleotti madrigals which
she thinks will make it to the printer this year.
I received a publication (catalog) from Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.
[16122 Cohasset Street, Van Nuys, CA 91406, (818)994-1902, fax (818) 994-0419]
"Music by Women Composers." The works are both instrumental and vocal. Watch
out though, I got a laugh when I saw Jean Berger's name listed. Nevertheless,
the publication has a lot of pieces which you may find helpful.
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From: EDWARDS(a)MACALSTR.EDU
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 17:38:35 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Women Composers
To: RobertE956(a)aol.com
I recommend the following works by women composers (only a few of the many
excellent possibilities):
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Hiob [Job] w/ orch - Pub: Furore Verlag
Marianna Martines - Dixit Dominus w/ standard 18th-century orch. Pub: Furore
other works available from Furore
Libby Larsen - The Settling Years w/ woodwind quintet & piano Pub: ECS
works by Zae Munn (at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001)
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 14:22:20 -0700
From: jkramme(a)umr.edu (Joel Kramme)
Subject: Women Composers
Knowing that some of you have some special interests in music written by
women composers, I submit the following program currently being rehearsed
by the University of Missouri-Rolla University Orchestra and University
Choir for performance on Sunday, March 26 at 2;00 p.m. in Leach Auditorium.
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions concerning any of the
selections listed. (Cross posted on Early Music List.)
*************************************************************************
Women in Music, Sun., March 26, 2:00 p.m., Leach Auditorium
"Say Can You Deny Me" ....................... Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749-1833)
Concert Aria for Soprano and Orchestra ((ClarNan Editions)
Salmo 51, 1768 ................................. Marianne Martines (1744 - 1812)
For soprano, Alto and Tenor Soli, Mixed Choir, Strings and Organ
(Editions Ars Femina)
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 14:55:36 -0700
From: Thomas Wine <twine(a)wolfgang.musicnet.ua.edu>
Subject: Re: Women Composers
On 2/21/95, Bob Eaton wrote:
Looking for significant choral works by Women Composers.
The University of Alabama Singers will be doing an interest session at the ACDA
convention on this very topic! The music scheduled for that performance
includes:
Pluck the Fruit and Taste the Pleasure ... Libby Larsen
If Music be the Food of Love ... Jean Belmont
Fog ... Phyllis Zimmerman
I Know a Bird ... Emma Lou Diemer
Under My Command (2 pt) ... Mary Goetze
Ride On Now, O King (SA) ... Helen Kemp
This Endris Night (SSAA) ... Lana Walters
The Blue Eye of God (SSAA) ... Nancy Telfer
Prayer ... Alice Parker
For Ever and Ever ... Gywneth Walker
A Celtic Prayer ... Jane Marshall
Menedictus, Hosanna, Agnus Dei ... Rugh Henderson
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From: RobertE956(a)aol.com
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 15:24:52 -0500
Subject: Women composers
The Women Composer's Resource Center in San Francisco maintains a
database of orchestral works. I'm not certain this includes choral works,
but would imagine that it does.
415-543-2297
FAX: 415-543-3244
The IAWM has an electronic list with over 100 subscribers: composers,
performers, musicologists
works by Libby Larsen (Ringeltanze) or Ellen Taafe Zwillich.
Lili Boulanger's (younger sister of Nadia) choral works Her Psalm De
Profundis (Out of the Depths) is work for chorus and orchestra, about 25 to
30 minutes in length . She also wrote several smaller peices.
Libby Larsen's "The Settling Years"? A very nice set of pieces (Four
sections, I believe) with woodwind ensemble (quintet?)
Libby Larsen
Carol Barnett
Judith Lang Zaimont
These are composers who live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area whose works
I've sung. While the music will be challenging, it will be well worth the
effort.
Of particular interest is Zaimont's "The Parable of Abraham and Isaac," which
is in two versions, one for strings, harpsichord, STB soli and chorus, and an
alternate version for the same vocal forces with organ.
Barnett and Larsen have written many works for chorus--both are involved with
the Minnesota Composers Forum. It may be best to get in touch with the MCF
for specific ideas, or for addresses/phone numbers of the composers
themselves.
Maxine Warshauer from South Carolina. Her works have been performed for SC
and Israel audiences and she is known for meshing the elements of Jewish
tradition with modern compositional writings.
The company listed below specializes in women composers and they publish a
catalogue.
Hildegard Publishing Company
Box 332
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
(610)649-8649
20-minute cantata titled "Encounters with Yahweh" by Margaret A. Vance
(emeritus professor of music and composer of perhaps 75+ octavos in various
publisher's catalogues). The poetry is by Madeleine D'Engle. Work written
for dramatic narrator, small wind group, organ, piano and SATB chorus. Three
movements performed without pause
Newly published (Boosey & Hawkes) Gloria by Ruth Watson Henderson with brass
quintet and percussion is a good piece. Between 5 and 7 minutes.
Lauds to Saint Ursula by Hildegard von Bingen published by Hildegard
Press-very interesting - written for women's voices
Fragments from the Mass-Emma Lou Diemer-nice piece
Black Tambourines by Thea Musgrave-available from E.C. Schirmer
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Hiob [Job] w/ orch - Pub: Furore Verlag
Marianna Martines - Dixit Dominus w/ standard 18th-century orch. Pub: Furore
other works available from Furore
Libby Larsen - The Settling Years w/ woodwind quintet & piano Pub: ECS
works by Zae Munn (at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Hiob [Job] w/ orch - Pub: Furore Verlag
Marianna Martines - Dixit Dominus w/ standard 18th-century orch. Pub: Furore
other works available from Furore
Libby Larsen - The Settling Years w/ woodwind quintet & piano Pub: ECS
works by Zae Munn (at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001)
Broude Brothers has a choral series called "Nine Centuries
of Music By Women" which includes mostly shorter choral selections by
Aleotti (variously called Rafaella for religious works and Vittoria for
secular ones!), Isabella Leonarda, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi and
others (I have only an older catalog, so I am sure there are more selections
in the series now. There is a woman in Fayetteville, AR named Barbara
Garvey Jackson who has edited a number of longer works requiring larger
forces (canatas, oratorios, etc.) by women. My information again is not up
to date, but I have a phone number of (501) 442-7414, and there are some
intriguing dramatic works by Camilla Rossi, and a mass by Leonarda
wonderful Magnificat by Marjan Helms for SATB and Orchestra
"The Settlin' Years" by Libby Larsen
some Hildegard von Bingen, if you have experience in plainchant, This is
material of much interest and resonance.
- Fanny Henzl's Gartenlieder
- arrangements by Alice Parker (Shaw / Parker materials) of folk songs.
- several major works & cycles by Alice Parker
- 20 year old Shakespeare madrigals by Emma Lou Diemer are still marvelous!
Judith Shatin Professor of Music University of Virginia- We Hold These
Truths, a setting of a large portion of the Declaration of Independence,
scored for chorus, brass quintet and tympnani. It is ca. 16', and was
commissioned by the University of Virginia for the 250th birthday celebration
of Thomas Jefferson. It was premiered for an audience of 10,000 after
Gorbachev delivered a keynote address, and was subsequently featured on
CBS Sunday morning.
Mona Lyn Reese, Minneapolis, 612-929-2319. Last November her work Choose
Life (Uvacharta Bachayim) was premiered by three local church and synagogue
choirs as part of MCF's church/synagogue residency program. The oratorio
commemorates the
Holocaust through works the choir performs and readings from survivors. All
together, the oratorio takes about 1 1/4 hours. Over 600 people attended the
premiere and it was very well received.
Anne Kilstofte, 612-861-2702, has written a number of choral works, although
I
don't know if any are at least 15 minutes long.
Cantata by Kay Gardner: "Ourobouros". It covers the cycles of a woman's
life in 8 sections, has 7 soloists, a choral part, with orchestra. I
performed it at the world premiere at the National Women's Music Festival in
Bloomington, Indiana last year, and it was incredibly moving. It's about 60
minutes long
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:15:00 -0700
From: Bethyn A Boni <baboni(a)naz.edu>
Subject: women's choral music (compilation and thanks)(long)
First, I would like to publicly thank everyone who sent recommendations,
ideas, suggestions, offers of review copies, offers to view their own
compositions, music publishers' names and phone numbers, and all of the
moral support!
Single titles
"O pastor animarum" by Hildegard von Bingen (Hildegard Press)
"Hor che la vaga Aurora" by Vittoria Aleiotti (Broude Bros)
"Ave Regina caelorum" by Isabella Leonarda (Broude Bros)
"Con le belle non ci vuol fretta" by Barbara Strozzi (Broude Bros)
"Sechs Geistliche Lieder" by Louise Reichardt (SSAA) (Broude Bros)
"Gartenlieder" by Fanny Hensel (Earthsongs)
"Hymne au Soleil" by Lili Boulanger (G. Schirmer)
"Lonesome Traveler" by Gwyneth Walker (E.C. Schirmer)
"Primrose" by Libby Larsen (E.C. Schirmer)
"Picking Apples" by Libby Larsen (E.C. Schirmer)
"The Maggie Hunter" by Ruth Watson Henderson (G. Thompson)
"Give God the Glory" by Judith Baity (Lawson-Gould)
"God is Love" by Emma Lou Diemer (Arsis)
"Nigra sum" by Pablo Casals
"Gott ist mein Hirt" (23rd Psalm) by Schubert
"Missa brevis" by Britten
"The steps to wisdom" by Samuel Adler
"Lift thine eyes" by Mendelssohn
"The green hill" by K.K. Davis (E.C. Schirmer)
"Psalm 100" by Rene Clausen
"Laudamus Te" by Rene Clausen
"A song for all Mary's" by Z. Randall Stroope
"Crown of roses" by Stroope
"Ave Maria" by Keating
"Ezekial Saw de Wheel" (no composer or arranger given)
"E'en so, Lord Jesus" by Paul Manz
SA duets from Bach cantatas
"Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritte" ("We hurry with weak, yet
eager steps") Cantata 78
"Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt" ("Death no one could overcome") Cantata 4
"Herr, du siehst statt guter Werke auf des Herzens Glauben" ("Lord, you
regard the heart's faith instead of good work") Cantata 9
"Entziehe dich eilends, mein Herze, der Welt" ("Withdraw yourself
hastily, my heart, from the world") Cantata 124
"Gesegnete Christen, gluckselige Herde" ("Blessed Christians,
fortune-blessed flock") Cantata 184
"Herz, zerreiss des Mammons Kette" ("Heart, split the chain of Mammon")
Cantata 168
Collections or works
_Oxford Anthems for Choirs_ vols. 2, 3
_Liber Usualis_
_Gregorian Missal_
_Ceremony of Carols_ by Britten
_Medieval Carols_ vol. IV of the series _Musica Brittanica_
_Der Jahrkreis_ by Hugo Distler (Baerenriter)
_Selections from Der Jahrkreis_ (Concordia)
_SAB Masterworks for all Seasons by Hal Hopson
_Seven Anthems for Treble Choirs_ by Th. Beck (Concordia)
Music publishers
J.W. Pepper Music Company (1-800-345-6296)
The Mayhew catalog (Call Vester and ask for this catalog 1-800-409-6477)
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Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 13:33:24 -0600 (CST)
From: "D. BRENT BALLWEG" <BBALLWEG(a)FS7HOST.CCCCD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Women Composers
As we all might remember, our recent ACDA National Convention in
Washington D.C. had an interest session on the "Choral Music of Women
Composers Conducted by Women Conductors". One of the handouts at
this session was a list of choral music by contemporary women
composers (recommended list from music submitted by publishers).
Various voicings are included.
This only dealt with the contemporary scene and was not intended to
be a historical look at women composers, but it would be a good
source to start with. Sandra Willets at the Univ. of Alabama was the
clinician and would be a good source. I'm sure you could get copies
of the above mentioned list if you contacted her:
Dr. Sandra Willets
School of Music
Univ. of Alabama
Box 870366
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
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Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 14:45:23 +0059 (EDT)
From: The von Huene Workshop <vonhuene(a)world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Women Composers
Well, while I'm sure there are others more qualified, I'll start. Broude
Brothers publishes a series called "Nine Centuries of Music by Women";
while the series is not extensive, it does include some interesting sacred
and also somewhat rarer secular works by Francesca Caccini (158701630?),
Barbara Strozzi (c.1610-c.1644), Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1664-
1729), Louise Reichardt (1779-1826), Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704, who by
the way was one of the most widely published composers of the 17th century,
with over 17 volumes of compositions printed in her lifetime...),and also
Raffaella/Vittoria Alleotti (c. 1574-1646). Barbar Garvey Jackson of
ClarNan Editions, 235 Baxter Lane, Fayetteville, AR 72701 (501) 442-7414,
publishes choral and orchestral music by Camilla de Rossi (early 18th c.),
Isabella Leonarda, Cattterina Benedetta Grazianini, Maria Marghartia
Grimani, helene Liebmann, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Sophia Maria
Westenholz and Corona Schroter among others (I don't have an up to date
catalog.)
Quite a few women *and* men were published in the 16th - 18th centuries
whose music has not yet been reprinted in modern editions.
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Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 20:01:01 -0700
From: jfh(a)crl.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Women Composers
At 08:29 AM 5/5/95 +0000, benk(a)dordt.edu wrote:
>singing. The presentation hit home with me, in that I had to acknowledge
>my relative ignorance in the area of choral music composed by women, other
>than a few names (Amy Beach,
Her "The Chambered Nautilus" is one of my all-time favorite pieces to sing.
You can add Libby Larsen to the list of modern women composers who have
written choral works.
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Date: 09 May 95 07:40:04 EDT
From: "Timothy P. Banks" <74063.424(a)compuserve.com>
Subject: Choral music by women
To Wayne Hatwich, who wrote:
>... there might be some choral or vocal works by Fanny Mendelssohn,
Clara Schumann, or Nanerl Mozart. Thinking on this, however,
leads me to strongly doubt if there is anything ...<
Though I don't know of Ms. Mozart, I am aware of quite a few partsongs
by both Fanny Mendelssohn & Clara Schumann. (Regretfully, I am away from
my sources right now.) I think you're right about the church stuff, but the
secular world was not always so totally unreceptive to women composers.
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Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 08:05:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bruce MacINTYRE <BCMBC%CUNYVM.BITNET(a)vaxf.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Women Composers of Choral Music
In my study of 18th-century Viennese concerted Masses I looked at those
of Marianne von Martinez (1744-1812). She was a woman of many musical
talents, having studied with Porpora, Bonno, Haydn, and Metastasio.
Burney writes about one of her Psalm settings a 4 voci with orchestra.
He said it was "an admirable composition . . ."
Within the past year or so someone published one of her Psalms, and someone
on this list performed it. I'm curious to know how they liked the work.
Mlle. Martinez was considered competent enough to be honored with
membership in Bologna's Accademia Filarmonica, for which she would have had
to submit a sample composition (probably in stile antico). Frankly, having
looked at her Masses with their frequent infelicities in part writing, I've
never understood how she won the honor from Bologna. But the honor was a
big deal at the time -- written up in Vienna's newspaper in glorious tones.
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Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 09:36:09 -0400
From: Mlarksing(a)aol.com
Subject: Re: Women Composers
Fanny Mendelssohn Henzel did indeed write beautiful choral music. This
spring I am doing her "Gartenlieder" (Opus 3) with the New Ark Chorale of
Newark, DE. Very nice pieces, tuneful, expressive, and accessible to
performer and listener.
Also I would think that Alice Parker must be included in any discussion on
contemporary women composers/arrangers.
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Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 10:35:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: EDWARDS(a)MACALSTR.EDU
Subject: Re: Women Composers of Choral Music
Bruce, Ben & others interested:
Last spring, I performed Marianna Martinez's _Dixit Dominus_ (pub. by
furore, see below) for SSATB & orchestra. It is wonderful and effective
setting in 6 movements: chorus; sa solo duet; a solo; chorus; solo quartet;
chorus. The choral mov'ts indeed reflect Martinez's study of Baroque
composers (e.g., Lotti and Handel) while the solo mov'ts are thoroughly
modern. The work combines dramatic moments with galant style. This is the
composition which she wrote for the annual festival of the Acadamia
Filharmonica as a condition of membership.
furore verlag (Naumburger Strasse 40, Kassel, D-34127; telephone:
49/(0)561/897352) is a fine publishing company, operated by Barbara Gabler
and Renate Matthei, which focusing on compositions by women. In addition
to _Dixit Dominus_, they publish other choral works by women including at
least one more psalm setting by Martinez and the cantate _Hiob_ (Job) by
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. This latter work, which I have also performed,
in another fine work for ssatb and orchestra. It is shorter (maybe only
10-12' ?) in 3 mov'ts. The middle mov't was conceived for solo satb
quartet; however, it works quite well for chorus as the writing style is
not virtuosic nor explicitly soloistic. I have had excellent service from
this publisher; you can call or write in English.
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel produced a number of large-scale choral-orchestral
works--several for the Berlin Sunday musicales held in the Mendelssohn
family home and for which Fanny served (1831 until her death in 1847) as
Music Director and conductor. _Hiob_ was premiered in that setting in
1831. Her oratorio (Oratorium nach Bildern der Bibel) for SATB, satb, orch
is available and has been recorded on CPO 999 009-2 (another recording is
forecast by the Women's Philharmonic (formerly the Bay Area Women's
Philharmonic). Despite editorial comments to the contrary in one edition
of some of Hensel's _Gartenlieder_, she composed a huge body of material
both initimate and large-scale. Camilla Cai (Kenyon College) is one of
several scholars doing substantive research, editing and publishing about
Hensel.
Clara Schumann composed only one known choral work: Three Choruses on
texts by Geibel (Drei gemischte Cho"re nach Gedichten von Emanuel Geibel)
for SATB, published by Breitkopf & Hartel in German text only. The notes
are especially difficult; however, they are probably most effective as solo
quartet or small ensemble. I have programmed these in the past with 13
singers which resulted in an effective performance. They are about 5+2+3
minutes in duration.
I have a six-page handout of selected choral literature by women, which I
prepared for the College Music Society's Institutet for the Study and
Teaching of Women and Music (summer 1993). I will forward this to the list
in a separate post.
While I concur with Wayne, that the western church has not generally been
hospitable toward women, I do believe that we have a skewed view of what
choral literature has been written and performed during the past several
centuries. Current repertoire clearly favors sacred literature; however, I
believe that more secular literature was written than is in the present-day
choral canon. Further, works by women have not found a place in the so-
called standard repertoire nor histories. This has given the mistaken
impression that they were not active and composers. Scholarship and to a
lesser extent publishing during the past decade have clearly demonstrated
the greater prominence of women in western classical music. Although
choral music has not been a focus of much research, I suggest there is much
yet to be done. Hopefully, graduate students and other choral musicians
will contribute with dissertations, editions, and more performances of
compositions by women.
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Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 11:14:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: EDWARDS(a)MACALSTR.EDU
Subject: Choral Potpourri: Lit by Women
I hope members of Choralist will find this useful. The original printed
version carried a copyright notice dated 1993. I hope that members will
respect this. Thank you. Michele
CHORAL POTPOURRI: LITERATURE by WOMEN COMPOSERS
[A very unsystematic collection but perhaps a starting point]
Prepared by: J. Michele Edwards (Macalester College)
with assistance from Amanda L. Witman (Macalester '95)
For: College Music Society 27 June-2 July 1993
Institute for the Study and Teaching of "Women and Music"
see Jane Bowers, "Women Composers in Italy, 1566-1700," in Women Making
Music, esp. n. 78, pp. 155-56 about the identity of several Aleotti
sisters.]
Aleotti, Raffaella. Angelus ad pastores ait. Broude Bros., CR23.
SSATB [1:00; Latin & English text in ed.; good piece;
Aleotti, Raffaella. Ascendens Christus in altum. Broude Bros., MW12.
SATTB. [1:30; Latin & English text in ed.; A2 rather low,
probably really a T part; good piece]
Aleotti, Raffaella. Facta est cum Angelo. Broude Bros., MW13.
SAATB. [1:30; Latin & English text in ed.; largely imitative]
Aleotti, Vittoria. Baciai per haver vita. Broude Bros., MW14. SATB.
[2:00; Italian & English text in ed.; rec - Access S-103 (LP)]
Aleotti, Vittoria. Hor che la vaga Aurora. Broude Bros., MW15.
SATB. [2:15; Italian & English text in ed.; rec - Access S-103 (LP);
madrigal mixing imitation & homophonic textures]
Armer, Elinor. Anithaca, the Island of the Daughters of Penelope
(1990). (no. 4 in Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts) Girls' chorus.
[14:00; part of on-going series in collaboration with Ursula K. Le
Guin; effective; will challenge most college ensembles]
Barkin, Elaine. Two Dickinson Choruses (1977). Association for the
Promotion of New Music. SATB. [5:15; rec - CRI SD 482 (LP); warm
dissonance; textual imagery]
Barnett, Carol. Dance and Sing. ms (from composer in Twin Cities).
SATB. [Commissioned & premiered by Macalester Festival Chorale;
text: John Gay; some mixed meter; mostly unison rhythm or paired
women/men]
Barnett, Carol. The Last Invocation (1988). Boosey & Hawkes. SATB
divisi. [5:00; dense, lush sound; diatonic dissonance, but
fundamentally nonfunctional triads; not easy; will work with
ensembles of various sizes]
Bauer, Marion. At the New Year, op. 42 (1947). Associated Music Pub.
Mixed chorus, pn. [Text: Kenneth Patchen; among her most important
choral works]
Bauer, Marion. Fair Daffodils (1914). Arthur P. Schmidt. Women's
chorus, kbd. [Text: Robert Herrick; among her most important choral
works]
Bauer, Marion. A Foreigner Comes to Earth on Boston Common (1951).
Composers Facsimile Ed./ACA. Mixed chorus, st. [Text: Horace
Gregory]
Beach, Amy. The Canticle of the Sun, op. 123. Arthur P. Schmidt.
SATB, smztb, org or pn. [20:00; text: St. Francis of Assisi; orch:
2222 4231 str, timp, perc; contact New England Conservatory for
materials; exciting work; somewhat dissonant for Beach; frequent
voice pairing of women/men; originally for orch]
Beach, Amy. Festival Jubilate, op. 17 (1892). Arthur P. Schmidt.
SATB with frequent divisi (esp. SSATTB), pn [or org]. [15:00; psalm
text plus closing Doxology; good piece; written for dedication of the
Women's Building at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893;
originally for orch; in public domain]
Bitgood, Roberta. Job (1945). H.W. Gray. Mixed chorus, sttbari.
[Cantata with text from Bible and verses by Daniel ben Judah
translated by Newton Mann & Max Landsberg; among her most significant
works; she has published many accessible anthems]
Bonds, Margaret. The Ballad of the Brown King. Sam Fox [also in ms].
SATBB with occasional divisi, satb, orch (or pn). [15:00; Christmas
cantata of 9 mov'ts; text: Langston Hughes; very interesting work
including jazzy, Broadway-esque style; African American composer;
solos are short; pub version only for pn; see Mildred Denby Green,
Black Women Composers (Boston: Twayne, 1983), pp. 64-70]
Bonds, Margaret. Credo (1972). ms. SATB, bar, orch. [Premiered by
LA Sym Orch, Zubin Mehta, cond; African American composer.]
2 Boulanger, Lili. Du fond de l'abime. Durand, D.& F.10543. SATB,
at, org, orch [26:00; ; rec - Intaglio INCD 703-1; text: Psalm
130]
Boulanger, Lili. Hymne au soleil. SATB, alto, pn. [4:00; rec -
Bayer BR 100 041]
Boulanger, Lili. Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat [For the funeral of
a soldier]. Ricordi, no: 116510-11. Chorus, baritone, orch. [10:00;
rec - Festival Classique FC 441 (LP); French & English in score]
Boulanger, Lili. Psaume 24 (1916). Durand, D. & F. 10481 & 10488.
SATB, org, orch. [4:00; French & English text in score; rec -
Intaglio INCD 703-1]
Boulanger, Lili. Renouveau [Spring]. SATB, sat, pn. [5:00; rec -
Bayer BR 100 041]
Boulanger, Lili. Les SirŠnes [The mermaids]. G. Schirmer, 12350 &
48183. 3-pt mixed chorus, sop, pn. [5:30; rec - Bayer BR 100 041;
French & English in score]
Boulanger, Lili. Soir sur la Plaine [Evening on the plain]. G.
Schirmer, 12353 & 48186. SATB, st, orch or pn. [9:00; rec - Bayer
BR 100 041; French & English in score]
Boulanger, Lili. Vieill PriŠre bouddhique [Old Budhist prayer]
(1914/1917). Durand, D.& F.10089 & 10090. SATB, tenor, orch or pn.
[Lengthy passages in octave chant style, pairing ST & AB]
Caccini, Francesca. Aure volanti. Broude Bros., MW1. SSA, 3fl,
continuo. [3:00; Italian & English text in ed.; from her 1625 opera,
La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall' isola d'Alcina; madrigal style]
Caccini, Francesca. La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall' isola d'Alcina.
Smith College, No. 7 [pop]. Italian text; piano-vocal score of 1625
opera; could do short scene or selected choruses]
Childs, Mary Ellen. Bright Faces. Available through Places Please
Publishing, c/o MCF. SATB w/ divisi, 9 women soloists, pn [12:30;
rec - innova MN 110; difficult for singers & pn; text: Sappho]
Chaminade, Cecile. Les Amazones. Enoch & Cie. SATB with various
divisi, pn reduction (by composer). [Possible to perform some
selected choruses from this large-scale work, called a Symphonie
Dramatique; text in French & German]
Daniels, Mabel. Exultate Deo (Song of Rejoicing), op. 33 (1929).
Arthur P. Schmidt, No. 1547. SATB, orch or org & pn [8:00; Latin
or English; substantial diatonic dissonance esp. between voices &
instruments; lots of adjacent triads made nonparallel through use of
various inversions; shifting modes; festive work; text: composers
adaptation from Psalms]
Daniels, Mabel. A Psalm of Praise. H.W. Gray, Contemporary Choral
Series No. 19. SATB w/ minimal divisi, 3 tpt, perc, timp, org or pn.
[8:00; some dissonance but individual lines are melodic; festive]
Daniels, Mabel. The Ride (also: The Wild Ride) (1926). Arthur P.
Schmidt. Men's chorus, pn. [Text: Louise Imogen Guiney; among her
more important choral works]
Daniels, Mabel. Salve, festa dies (Hail thee, day of gladness). ECS
Pub [formerly E.C. Schirmer], No. 2706. SATB. [3:00; triadic but
not functional mov't; some P4 & P5; avoids V-I; modal sound;
effective anthem; Latin & English text]
Diemer, Emma Lou. Invocation (1985). C. Fischer. SSAATTBB, orch or
pn. [8:00; text: May Sarton; calm, contemplative work; much is SATB]
Diemer, Emma Lou. There Is a Morn Unseen (1991). Seesaw. SATB, s
(or t), orch (or pn). [8:15; text: Emily Dickinson; uses slower-
moving harmonies enlivened with melodic figuration; moderate
difficulty; lots of energy & colorful orch; much lost if only pn]
Diemer, Emma Lou. Three Madrigals (1960). Boosey & Hawkes. Mixed
chorus & pn or org. [5:00; text: Shakespeare; rec - Access S-103]
Diemer, Emma Lou. Two Madrigals (1974). Hinshaw, HMC115. Any 2-part
chorus, pn. [Has many published works for various levels of
skill/experience]
Dinescu, Violeta. Choreinlage. SSA, pn. [ms at Archiv Frau und
Musik, Kassel; from Der 35. Mai]
Dryburgh, Margaret, arr. of "Largo" from Dvorak's New World Symphony.
[Created & performed by the arranger while in a prison camp in
Sumatra during the early 1940s; Calliope Women's Chorus, Minneapolis
has performed this; ms at Stanford Library; a video & recording by
survivors is call Song of Survival.]
Gardner, Kay. When We Made the Music. Gnome Music [P.O. Box 33,
Stonington, ME 04681]. SSAA, pn (or Eng hn & str qt; composer
identifies as her most important choral work]
Gilbert, Jan. Let That Day Be Darkness (A Krio Setting of Job).
Available from composer (in Twin Cities). Mixed chorus, Job (by t,
ct, bari), t, bari, b, African "master" drummer. [Commission by
Chanticleer; portions revised for Macalester Festival Chorale (large
mixed chorus); compelling work; takes time to coordinate; text in
Krio the lingua franca & literary language of poets & playwrights of
Sierra Leone; drawn from biblical Job; composer will provide tape of
Krio pronunciation]
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn. Weltliche a-cappella-Chore von 1846
including the 6 choruses published as Gartenlieder, op. 3. Furore
(Kassel), nos. 510-514. SATB. [17 works in 5 vols; 12th work for
double SATB chorus; edited by Elke Mascha Blankenburg from the
holograph (Musikabteilung Ms. 49) in the Staatsbibliothek Preussicher
Kulturbesitz, Berlin; rec - CPO 999 012-2; German only]
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn. Gartenlieder, op. 3. Furore (Kassel), no.
515. SATB. [Just the 6 choruses reprinted from the above larger
collection; German only; rec - CPO 999 012-2]; also 5 of the choruses
in Victorian English versions available from Arts Venture, 1815 Carr
Ave., Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn. Hiob [Job] (1831). Furore (Kassel), Nr
526. SATB, satb, orch. [Cantata German only; modest orch: 2202 0000
2111 for all but last 26 measures which has orch: 2222 2200 2111 +
timp; 3 mov'ts; middle mov't, Arioso, is solo quartet]
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn. Lobgesang. Furore (Kassel), Nr. 525.
SATB, sa, orch. [Cantata; German only; orch: 2222 2000 2111; uses
various orchestral combinations; 5 mov'ts: Intro, Chorus, Recit (a),
Aria (s), Chorus]; also available on rental from Arts Venture, 1815
Carr Ave., Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn. Oratorium nach Bildern der Bibel. SATB,
satb, orch. [Rec - CPO 999 009-2; also forthcoming from Women's
Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta, cond.]
Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth. Raccommodement comique de Pierrot et
de Nicole. Broude Bros., MW4. sb, continuo. [3:00; French & English
text in ed.; more suitable for solo than choral performance; fun on
a voice recital]
King, Betty Jackson. Great Day. Belwin Mills, PRO CH 2908.
[Spiritual; African American composer.]
Larsen, Libby. Refuge. ECS Pub [formerly E.C. Schirmer], 4399 (from
archive copy 295). SSAA. [Text: Sara Teasdale]
Larsen, Libby. The Settling Years. ECS Pub [formerly E.C. Schirmer].
SATB + WWQ, pn [11:30; texts: poetry by American pioneer women &
men; 3 mov'ts; fun piece with lots of contrast; works well with
ensembles of various sizes; good opportunity for a large chorus to
do a work with some contemporary elements but which is not
technically too difficult; rec - innova MN 110; "on winged flight"
BOL-8902, 2-CD set with U.S. Air Force Band & Singing Sergeants (not
for sale; available only from the performers)]
Larsen, Libby. Stepping Westward. ECS Pub [formerly E.C. Schirmer],
4400. SSAA, ob, marimba, handbells. [Text: Denise Levertov]
Larsen, Libby. Three Summer Scenes. ECS Pub [formerly E.C.
Schirmer], 4366-4368. SATB, #3 also has soli or semichorus, w/ pn
or orch. [They look interesting; not easy]
Larsen, Libby. We Celebrate!. ECS Pub [formerly E.C. Schirmer],
3080. SATB, org/pn. [Feasible with good church choir; energetic 6/8
rhythm with occasional 3/4 accents; mix of counterpoint &
homophonic.]
Larsen, Libby. Who Cannot Weep, Come Learn of Me. ECS Pub [formerly
E.C. Schirmer], 2854. SSAA, mez, t, org. [6:00]
Leonarda, Isabella. Ave Regina caelorum. Broude Bros., MW11. sat,
SATB, continuo. [2:30; Latin & English text in ed.; could probably
do soli as choral or only top of the duets (st; at); modest ranges]
Leonarda, Isabella. Beatus vir, op. 19. A-R Edition, Recent
Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, vol. 59. SATB, satb, 2
vn, continuo (violone, tiorbo, org)
Leonarda, Isabella. Kyrie, op. 4. A-R Edition, Recent Researches in
the Music of the Baroque Era, vol. 59. SATB, 2 vn, continuo ([vc],
org)
Leonarda, Isabella. Messa Prima, op. 18. SATB, satb, 2 vn, vc, org.
ClarNan Editions, 235 Baxter Lane, Fayetteville, AK 72701, CN1: 2nd
ed. [3 mov'ts only; Kyrie - 5:15; Gloria - 17:00; Credo - 19:00;
ranges are modest so can be done with 2 soloists; 2 obs & bn also
work well; rec - Leonarda LPI 115 (LP)]
Libana. A Circle Is Cast: Rounds, Chants and Songs for Celebration
and Ritual. Libana, Inc. P.O. Box 530, Cambridge, MA, 02140; SRB-
002. [Cassette = SRC-002; CD = SPN-002; diverse sources; music
marks
seasonal changes & ritual gathering; 22 short items; can be
sung/performed in various ways; feasible for church choir use]
Maconchy, Elizabeth. The Bellman. Chester Book of Carols, MMB Music.
Unaccompanied SATB.
Maconchy, Elizabeth. Nocturnal. Chester. Unaccompanied SATB. [3
short mov'ts on texts by William Barnes, Edward Thomas, and Shelley;
well crafted; difficult]
Maconchy, Elizabeth. There is no Rose. Chester Book of Carols, MMB
Music. Unaccompanied SATB.
McLin, Lena J., arr. Gonna Rise Up in the Kingdom. Kjos, GC167.
SATB, sop solo (or select voices). [Spiritual; African American
composer.]
McLin, Lena J. Give Up The World. Kjos, GC169. SATB, a cappella.
[Spiritual; African American composer.]
Moore, Undine Smith. Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord. Warner
Bro., 487-40083. SSAATTBB, short b solo. [Spiritual; African
American composer.]
Moore, Undine Smith. I Believe This Is Jesus. Augsburg, 11-0559.
SATB with brief divisi. [Spiritual; African American composer; good
arrangement.]
Moore, Undine Smith. I Will Trust in the Lord (1986). Augsburg, 11-
2505. stb, SATB with minimal divisi, opt. small group of women.
[Spiritual; African American composer; particularly strong
arrangement.]
Moore, Undine Smith. We Shall Walk through the Valley. Augsburg, 11-
0565. SATB. Spiritual; African American composer; mellow & serene;
short; easy.
Musgrave, Thea. For the Time Being: Advent. Novello 3431-22. SATB,
soli, narrator, a cappella. [Based on W.H. Auden's anti-war poem
"Advent"; major concert work; publisher identifies as difficult & for
college or conservatory choirs.]
Musgrave, Thea. Four Madrigals. Chester. SATB, opt. satb. [Text:
Sir Thomas Wyatt; moderate difficulty]
Oliveros, Pauline. Sound Patterns. Ed. Tonos (Darmstadt). SATB.
[4:00; all extended techniques, including whisper, tongue-clicks, lip
pops, etc.; improvised pitches but precisely notated rhythms;
effective & some humorous; text is phonemes & isolated words; best
with smaller ensemble; rec - Odyssey 32160156 (LP)]
Poston, Elizabeth. Jesus Christ the Apple Tree. Chester Book of
Carols, MMB Music. Unaccompanied SATB. [Very effective modern carol]
Reichardt, Louise. Sechs geistliche Lieder. Broude Bros., MW5, MW6,
MW7, MW8, MW9, MW10. SSAA, piano. [1:45/2:20/1:45/2:25/2:00/2:50;
German & English text; strophic but only verse 1 is underlaid;
basically homophonic; performance as a complete set may be rather
monochromatic; could be solo voices]
Sandler, Felicia A. B. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. Mark
Foster MF3032. SATB with viola or violin, keyboard. [3:00; text:
Robert Frost; although commissioned by a high school, seems rather
difficult; lost of dissonance including melodic 7ths; angular]
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896). Drei gemischte Ch”re nach Gedichten von
Emanuel Geibel (1848). Breitkopf & H„rtel, 3521. SATB. [Excellent
pieces; German text only; notes not difficult; durations: 5+2+3. I
programmed these this spring with Brahms' Requiem as a complement by
a small ensemble of about 13 singers.]
Smyth, Ethel. The March of the Women (1911). Various printings.
Unison, pn; SSA, orch or pn. [Dedicated to the Women's Social and
Political Union; suffragettes' battle hymn; text: Cecily Hamilton;
3rd of 3 Songs of Sunrise.]
Strozzi, Barbara. Con le belle non ci vuol fretta. Broude Bros.,
MW3. SATB, continuo. [3:00; Italian & English text in ed.]
Strozzi, Barbara. Consiglio amoroso. Broude Bros., MW2. SAB,
continuo. [4:00; Italian & English text in ed.]
Talma, Louise. Let's Touch the Sky. Hinshaw, HMC-545. SATB, fl, ob,
bn. [4:00; text: e.e. cummings; from a choral suite of the same
name; 6-measure tenor solo; unified sound; added-note triadic
harmony]
Van de Vate, Nancy. An American Essay (1972). ms. SATB with some
divisi, s, pn, perc. [29:00; text: from Leaves of Grass by Walt
Whitman; copy at Archiv Frau und Musik, Kassel; 5 mov'ts; accessible
to community or college ensembles of various sizes; looks solid &
interesting; perc: tam tam, susp cym, sndr, bdr, xylo, glocksp, tri,
tamb, timp; mov't 3 -= TTBB]
Walker, Gwyneth. American Ballads (5 American folksongs) (1992). ECS
Pub [formerly E.C. Schirmer]. SATB with some divisi, satb, fl.
[30:00; might use individual ballads; can be dramatized & semi-staged
with singers moving around the hall; diatonic harmonies, often with
non-referential triads; fun, effective settings; includes humor; a
substantial work involving folk tunes (Lonesome Traveler; Come All
Ye Fair and Tender Ladies; Careless Love [women only]; Clementine
[men only]; Shenandoah); potential for pitch problems since much is
a cappella]
Walker, Gwyneth. Check to Cheek (a nocturnal tango) (1978). ECS Pub
[formerly E.C. Schirmer]. SATB, pn. [1:00; text: Carll Tucker;
neat, fun piece]
Walker, Gwyneth. White Horses (1979). ECS Pub [formerly E.C.
Schirmer]. SATB, pn. [3:30; text: e.e. cummings; delicate &
attractive setting; has a large catalog of published works with ECS,
many are quite accessible.]
Williams, Mary Lou. Mary Lou's Mass. Mixed chorus, soloists, small
jazz combo. [Rec - Mary Records 102 (LP); various versions as
composer tended to revise for abilities of particular singers;
incorporates jazz & gospel elements]
Zaimont, Judith Lang. Three Ayres. Broude Bros., BB 5026-28. SATB.
[1:50/2:40/0:55; texts by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson & William Blake;
contrasting styles; moderate difficulty]
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Date: Tue, May 9, 1995 6:21 PM
From: "Joel D. Pressman" <jpressm(a)cello.gina.calstate.edu>
Subject: Re; Another Woman Composer
At ACDA National, we heard a number of delightful pieces from Jean Belmont,
some quite witty and fun to sing. Out of Kansas, I think....?
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Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 18:31:58 -0400
From: SVSTHP(a)aol.com
Subject: Re: Women Choral Composers
I am really sort of amazed that of all this discussion of women composers
there has been (unless I missed it) not one word about Ruth Watson
Henderson.
The Canadian conductors have been doing and amiring her work for a long
time.
Most is, I believe published by Gordon V Thompson of Toronto. Perhaps
George
E or Doug D if they're listening can provide a short list of things to do.
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Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 21:43:52 EST
From: Doc Locke <lockeb(a)kenyon.edu>
Subject: women choral composers
Two women composers from Canada whose work I find to be top-notch: Ramona
Luengen (Intrada Music) and Eleanor Daley (Alliance Music).
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Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 09:11:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: chairMU(a)oa.ptloma.edu
Subject: on WOMEN COMPOSERS, more
My first attempt to post...I hope this works!
In the discussion on women composers, I have not seen anything on one of
my favorite composers, Chesley Kahmann, who publishes under Orbiting Clef
Productions, Inc., 108 Woodland Avenue, Summit, NJ 07901.
Most of her work was written first for SSA and then adapted for SATB.
Particularly, her THE BABY HAS COME (Christmas) and ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON
HIGH are spectacular. I have performed to enthusiastic audiences. "And HE
WARMS THE EARTH," and "THE BIG PARADE" are also excellent program pieces.
Her piiano accompaniments are superb.
You will need a FINE piano player, but the pieces are worth it. She also
includes some trumpet parts ini some songs that are very well written.
Her works are too infrequently performed. They are fresh, "driving," and
exciting. She'll send a catalog, I suspect.
KeithPagan(a)oa.ptloma.edu
Point Loma Nazarene College, San diego
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Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 16:31:39 +0100
From: sglickma(a)haverford.edu (Sylvia Glickman)
Subject: Re: on WOMEN COMPOSERS
The Hildegard Publishing Company catalog lists choral music by women
composers from Kassia (ninth C) through many in the 20th C. If you are
interested, send a mailing address and I will have a catalog sent to you.
Sylvia Glickman
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Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 16:04:55 -0400
From: LSCMP(a)aol.com
To: sglickma(a)haverford.edu, choralist(a)lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: women choral composers
"Subj: women choral composers
"From: sglickma(a)haverford.edu (Sylvia Glickman)
" For those in the Philadelphia area who would like to hear some of
this music, the Hildegard Chamber Players is presenting POMERIUM...."
And Sylvia was too modest to mention it, but I think she could put you in
touch with the Hildegard Press, which publishes women composers' works. It
has published _Jumping Jacks_ by Stefania de Kenessey. This piece was a
winner in our composers' contest 2 years ago, and it has been the outstanding
discovery of the decade for me. It has charm and joy and happiness and
cleverness. (All of which qualities the composer also exudes.) It is
certainly not difficult for the singers, yet continues to hold out more and
more opportunities for discovery in performance.
It is the only piece I have ever had to stop in performance because the
audience was laughing too hard for us to continue. One can reach Stefania
directly at New School for Social Research, 66 West 12th St, NYC 10011.
Lee S. Spear
Community Music Project, Inc
(Chautauqua Chamber Singers)
LSCMP(a)aol.com
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Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 14:01:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chavaleh Laberge <chava(a)u.washington.edu>
To: benk(a)DORDT.EDU
Cc: choralist(a)lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: Women Composers
Lili Boulanger has some exquisitely beautiful choral pieces, worth
looking into.
Chavaleh LaBerge
Soprano-in-Progress
University of Washington
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Date: Thu, 11 May 95 17:21:00 PDT
From: "Seigel, Lester" <lseigel(a)gateway.bsc.edu>
Subject: RE: women composers
Ruth Watson Henderson..."she's not just for children anymore." I had
wonderful success this year with my college choir performing parts of her
MISSA BREVIS, published by Gordon V. Thompson: exciting, alive choral
writing. I will also second anyone's vote on Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's
GARTENLIEDER. I would rank these partsongs as high in musicality as any in
the genre, and they are available in a couple of new editions (not the
German imports I had to buy two years ago). My illustrious predecessor in
this position, Hugh Thomas, performed Amy Beach's MASS four years ago with
the group, a lovely work that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread so
far.
Lester Seigel
Assistant Professor of Music
Birmingham-Southern College
lseigel(a)bsc.edu
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Date: Fri, 12 May 95 11:03:37 EDT
From: Judith Nicosia Civitano <civitano(a)GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU>
If this information has appeared previously and I have missed it, please
forgive this posting. As a possible resource for the current discussion of
women composers, you might want to investigate "Women of Note" Quarterly,
which is published in Feb., May, Aug., and Nov. Address: Vivace Press, NW 310
Wawawai RD, Pullman, WA 99163-2959. Phone: (509) 334-4660, Fax: (509)
334-3551. The index to each year is published in February and contains
listings for articles, CD's reviewed, composers, writers/reviewers and
subjects. It is this index that was most helpul to me recently and I was able
to order a back issue for $6.00 which arrived almost overnight. Recent issues
have dealt with Jewish Liturgical Music by American Women since 1945,
composers such as Karolina Eiriksdottir and Grazyna Bacewicz, and other
interesting topics. While choral music per se has not been a topic during the
time I have been reading the magazine, repertoire by women composers has
appeared in CD reviews and articles.
On further perusal, there's a special number for subscriptions:
800-543-5429. ($20.00 for individuals, $25 for institutions. Foreign
subscribers add $8.00 for mailing costs.) It's proved to be a good investment
of reading time; there's something in almost every issue that's useful in
class or lessons. Good luck.
JN Civitano
civitano(a)gandalf.rutgers.edu
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