Edited by Eugene Gates and Karla Hartl
Publisher: The Kapralova Society (2021)
ISBN 978-1-7777795-0-4 (e-book) / ISBN 978-0-9940425-9-0 (softcover). 378 pp., 17 illustrations. Print run: 50 copies.
THE CONTENTS
Preface
PART I. WOMEN IN MUSIC
1.1 The Woman Composer Question: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
1.2 Women Composers: A Critical Review of the Psychological Literature
1.3 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: A Life of Music within Domestic Limits
1.4 Clara Schumann: A Composer’s Wife as Composer
1.5 Clara Schumann: New Cadenzas for Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D Minor. Romantic Visions of a Classical Masterpiece
1.6 Agathe Backer Grondahl (1847–1907): “A Perfectly Plain Woman?”
1.7 Emerging from the Shadows: Maude Valerie White, a Significant Figure in the History of English Song
1.8 Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don’t: Sexual Aesthetics and the Music of Dame Ethel Smyth
1.9 Dame Ethel Smyth: Pioneer of English Opera
1.10 Mrs. H.H.A. Beach: American Symphonist
1.11 Florence Price and the Politics of Her Existence
1.12 Feminizing the Stage: Early Lady Orchestras and Their Maestras
1.13 Dame Vera Lynn: Voice of a Generation
PART II. VITEZSLAVA KAPRALOVA (1915–1940)
2.1 The Power of Advocacy in Music: The Case of Vítezslava Kaprálová
2.2 Kaprálová and the Muses: Understanding the Qualified Composer
2.3 Sad Evening, Great Discovery: Bringing to Light a New Song by Vítezslava Kaprálová
2.4 Kaprálová’s Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon (1937–1938)
2.5 Vítezslava Kaprálová: Two Dances for Piano, op. 23 (1940). An Attempt at Reconstruction of the Autograph
2.6 Kaprálová as a Composer of the Week: The BBC Interview
Editors' Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
This book has been incorporated into the curriculum of the Juilliard School of Music and the Acadia University School of Music.
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