Women of Composition: Recent Episodes

Alexandra Paul

Prominent women in music, their lives, and process as an artist.

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Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2021, November 10). Fanny Mendelssohn. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fanny-Mendelssohn

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Kimber, M. W. (2002). The “Suppression” of Fanny Mendelssohn: Rethinking Feminist Biography. 19th-Century Music, 26(2), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2002.26.2.113

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Amy Beach - Mass in E flat major. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://youtu.be/8-DlOM03n68.

Logan, Jeremy. “Synesthesia and Feminism: A Case Study on Amy Beach (1867-1944).” New Sound: International Magazine for Music, no. 46, Dec. 2015, pp. 130–40. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.ezp.twu.edu/10.5937/newso1546130l.

Petrovich, M. (2012). Interplay of Tone and Color: Absolute Pitch and Synesthesia.

Schmitz. (2014). Ecstasy Op. 19 No. 2. Warner Music Group. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/2PO7CyHUOaw.

Wilhelm Gericke Papers (MS Mus 132-132.1). Houghton Library, Harvard University. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00717/catalog Accessed May 13, 2022.

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Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2021, November 10). Fanny Mendelssohn. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fanny-Mendelssohn

Burkholder, Grout & Palisca. A History of Western Music, 10th edition. New York:

W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Cheng, W. Y. (2010). Comparative analyses of different musical settings of the same text in the genre of German lieder. Comparative Analysis of Different Musical Settings of the Same Text. https://doi.org/10.14418/wes01.1.499

Doctuses (2018, July 23). Fanny Mendelssohn, Das Jar (The Year), cycle for piano (H. 385). Sputnikmusic. Retrieved May 6, 2022 from

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/77595/Fanny-Mendelssohn-Das-Jahr-The-Year-cycle-for-piano-H.-385/

Haas, M. (2014). Forbidden music: The Jewish composers banned by the Nazis. Yale University Press.

Hulsebus, K. E. (2021). The Invisible Romantic: The Life and Legacy of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. LOGOS: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, 14, 20–35.

https://web-p-ebscohost-com.ezp.twu.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=94fd4d64-6601-447f-8702-ff805bb0f883%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#

Kimber, M. W. (2002). The “Suppression” of Fanny Mendelssohn: Rethinking Feminist Biography. 19th-Century Music, 26(2), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2002.26.2.113

Riggle, E. (2021, February 27). The Hensels' year in Music. Ascension Episcopal Parish. Retrieved May 6, 2022, from https://www.ascensionepiscopalparish.org/the-cecilia-page/2020/9/5/fanny-hensels-year-of-travel-and-praise#

Stokes, R. (1825). Franz Grillparzer Italien translation to English. Retrieved May 6, 2022.

No author. (2011, October 18). Musical monarchs: Queen Victoria, Felix Mendelssohn and King Henry VIII. Musical Monarchs: Queen Victoria, Felix Mendelssohn and King Henry VIII. Retrieved May 7, 2022, from http://pianosage.blogspot.com/2011/10/musical-monarchs-queen-victoria-felix.html

Recordings:

Williams, Pharrell. “Happy.” GIRL, iTunes app, Columbia Records, 2014.

Mendelssohn, Fanny. Lorenzen, Wolfram. “Fruhlingslied/Springsong.” Das Jar, YouTube by NAXOS of America, 2012.

Mendelssohn, Fanny. Schick, George. “Italien.” Das Jar, YouTube by Sony Classical,

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