MUHL 428: WOMEN IN MUSIC

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Instructor: Asst. Prof. Maja Trochimczyk; USC School of Music
Instructor’s e-mail: majat@usc.edu; Phone no.: 213-740-9369;
Office: UMC 2nd floor, Polish Music Center;

Description * Texts * Schedule * Evaluation
Class Home Page * Thornton School of Music
Polish Music Center * USC Home Page


  1. Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980. (# ML82.A45)
  2. Baldauf-Berdes, Jane L. Women Musicians of Venice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
  3. Block, Adrienne Fried and Carol Neuls-Bates, eds. Women in American Music: A Bibliography of Music and Literature. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1979. (# ML128.W7B6)
  4. Bogin, Meg. The Women Troubadours. New York: Norton, 1980, 1st ed. 1976.
  5. Bourgeois, Anna Strong. Blueswomen: Profiles of 37 Early Performers with an Anthology of Lyrics, 1920-1945. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1996. (# ML 54.6.B79B6)
  6. Bowers, Jane and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150- 1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
  7. Briscoe, James R. Historical Anthology of Music by Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
  8. Campbell Don G. Master Teacher. Nadia Boulanger. Washington: The Pastoral Press, 1984.
  9. Chissell, Joan. Clara Schumann: A Dedicated Spirit. New York: Taplinger, 1983.
  10. Citron, Marcia J. The Letters of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn. New York: Pendragon Press, 1987.
  11. ________. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  12. ________. Cécile Chaminade: A Bio-Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
  13. Clément, Catherine. Opera or the Undoing of Women. Transl. Betsy Wing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988. 1st ed. 1979.
  14. Cohen, Aaron I. ed. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers, 2nd. ed. Westport: Greenwood, 1987.
  15. Cook, Susan C. and Judy S. Tsou. Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
  16. Cooper, Sarah, ed. Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women & Music. New York: New York University Press, 1996. (# ML 82. G57 1996)
  17. Dahl, Linda. Stormy Wather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
  18. Davidson, Audrey, Ekdahl, ed. The 'Ordo Virtutum' of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies. Studies in Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series, 18. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992.
  19. ________. Wisdom Which Encircles Circles: Papers on Hildegard of Bingen. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1996.
  20. Drinker, Sophie. Music and Women: The Story of Women in their Relation to Music. New York: Feminist Press, 1995; 1st ed. 1948.
  21. Dunn, Leslie C. and Nancy A. Jones, eds. Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. (# ML82.E55 1994)
  22. Ebel, Otto. Women Composers: A Biographical Handbook of Woman’s Work in Music. New York: F. H. Chandler, 1902.
  23. Elson, Arthur. Woman’s Work in Music. Portland: Longwood Press, 1976. Reprint of the 1st ed. L.C. Page: Boston, 1904. (#ML82.E49)
  24. Ericson, Margaret. Women and Music: A Selective Annotated Bibliography on women and Gender Issues in Music, 1987-1992. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996.
  25. Evans, Liz. Women, Sex and Rock’n’Roll: In their own Words. London, San Francisco: Pandora, 1994.
  26. Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard von Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. London: Routlege, 1990.
  27. Frasier, Jane. Women Composers: A Discography. Detroit Information Coordinators, 1983. (# ML156.4.W6F7 1983)
  28. Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora Guide to Women Composers. London: Pandora, 1994.
  29. ________., and Nicola LeFanu, eds. Reclaiming the Muse. Contemporary Music Review 1994. (# ML82.R429 1994)
  30. Gaar, Gillian. She’s a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll. Seattle: Seal Press, 1992.
  31. Green, Mildred Denby. Black Women Composers: A Genesis. Boston: Twayne, 1983.
  32. Groh, Jan Bell. Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frederique Petrides. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991. (# ML82.G76 1991)
  33. Harley, Maria Anna (see Maja Trochimczyk). "Notes on Polish Women Composers." Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada and the Polish Library vol. 13 (1996): 36-40. Also published in the IAWM Journal 2 no. 2 (June 1996): 13-15; and on PMRC Home Page (Essays).
  34. ________. Maria Szymanowska's vocal music (article and an edition of Six Romances) Chapter of Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, vol. 3, eds. Sylvia Glickman and Martha Furman Schleifer (Boston, G. K. Hall, Spring 1998).
  35. ________. "Bacewicz, Picasso and the Making of Desire," Journal of Musicological Research 16 no. 4 (1997): 243-281.
  36. Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
  37. Herndon, Marcia and Susanne Ziegler, eds. Music, Gender and Culture. Intercultural Music Studies, vol. 1, (series ed. Max Peter Baumann), Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag, 1990 (# ML82 M78 1990).
  38. Hixon, Don L. And Don A. Hennessee. Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975 (# ML105.H6), 2nd. ed. 1993 (received).
  39. Hyde, Derek. New Found Voices: Women in Nineteenth-Century English Music. London: Belvedere, 1984.
  40. Jackson, Barbara Garvey. Say Can You Deny Me: A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th through the 18th Centuries. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
  41. Jenkins, Walter S. The Remarkable Mrs. Beach, American Composer: A Biographical Account Based on her Diaries, Letters, Newspaper Clippings, and Personal Reminiscences. Ed., by John H. Baron. Warren, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 1994.
  42. Jezic, Dianne Peacock. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found. Ed. By Elisabeth Wood. New York: The Feminist Press, 1994.
  43. Johnson, Calvert, ed. Organ Music by Women Composers before 1800. Pullman, Wa.: Vivace Press, 1993.
  44. Keeling, Richard, ed. Women in North American Indian Music. Bloomington: Society for Ethnomusicology, 1989. Special Series no. 6. (# ML3550.W65 1989)
  45. Koskoff, Ellen, ed. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. (# ML82.W63 1987)
  46. Leder, Jan. Women in Jazz: A Discography of Instrumentalists, 1913-1968. Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1985. (# ML156.4.J3L44 1985)
  47. Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse. La création musicale des femmes au Québec. Saint-Laurent: Les Editions du Remue-Ménage, 1991.
  48. LePage, Jane Weiner. Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the Twentieth Century: Selected Biographies. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 1983, 1985.
  49. Lewis, Lisa A. Gender Politics and MTV: Voicing the Difference. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. (# PN1992.8.M87L49 1990 - Cinema TV)
  50. Loesser, Arthur. Men, Women and Pianos. London: Victor Gollancz, 1955.
  51. Marshall, Kimberly, ed. Rediscovering the Muses: Women’s Musical Traditions. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993. (# ML82 R43 1993)
  52. McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
  53. McDonnell, Evelyn and Ann Powers. Rock she wrote. New York: Delta 1995(# ML3534 R634)
  54. Meggett, Joan M. Keyboard Music by Women Composers: A Catalogue and Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.
  55. Mellers, Wilfrid. Angels of the Night. Popular Female Singers of Our Time. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.
  56. Monson, Craig A. Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent. University of California Press, 1995.
  57. Nauhaus, Gerard, ed. The Marriage Diaries of Robert and Clara Schumann. Transl. Peter Ostwald, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.
  58. Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed. Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996; revised edition; 1st ed. 1982. (# ML82.W65 1996)
  59. Nieuwkerk, Karin van. A Trade like any other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. (# PN2977.N54 1995---Doheny Book Stacks)
  60. Oliveros, Pauline. Software for People: Collected Writings, 1963-1980. Baltimore: Smith Publications, 1984.
  61. Pendle, Karin, ed. Women & Music: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. (# ML82.W6)
  62. Placksin, Sally. American Women in Jazz: 1900 to the Present: their Words, Lives and Music. New York: Seaview Books, 1982. (# ML3508.P58 1982)
  63. Pleasants, Henry. The Great Singers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
  64. Reich, Nancy B. Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. New York: Cornell University Press, 1985.
  65. Rosen, Judith. Grazyna Bacewicz: Her Life and Works. L.A.: Friends of Polish Music, 1984.
  66. Sadie, Julie Anne and Rhian Samuel, eds. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. New York: Norton, 1995.
  67. Solie, Ruth A. ed. Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  68. Schleifer, Martha Furman and Sylvia Glickman. Women Composers: Music through the Ages. Vol I-II, New York: G.K. Hall, 1996.
  69. Skowronski, JoAnn. Women in American Music, A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978 (# ML128.W7S6)
  70. Steward, Sue and Sheryl Garratt. Signed, Sealed and Delivered: True Life Stories of Women in Pop. Boston: South End Press, 1984. (# ML82.S8 1984)
  71. Stewart-Green, Miriam. Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980. (# ML156.4.V7S83)
  72. Strauss, Joseph. Ruth Crawford Seeger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  73. Tick, Judith. American Women Composers Before 1870. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.
  74. ________. Ruth Crawford Seeger. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  75. Thomas, Adrian. Grazyna Bacewicz. Chamber and Orchestral Music. Los Angeles: Friends of Polish Music, 1985.
  76. Trochimczyk, Maja. Grazyna Bacewicz PRC Web Site, 1996-2003 (Composers). LI>Trochimczyk, Maja. Hanna Kulenty PRC Web Site, 1996-2003 (Composers). LI>Trochimczyk, Maja. Marta Ptaszynska PRC Web Site, 1996 (Composers). LI>Trochimczyk, Maja. Maria Szymanowska PRC Web Site, 1996-2003 (Composers).
  77. Unterbrink, Mary. Jazz Women at the Keyboard. Jefferson: McFarland, 1983.
  78. Upton, George Putnam. Woman in Music. Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1895 (c1886). (# 780.07.U71w 1895)
  79. Vander, Judith. Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. (# ML3557.V36 1988)
  80. Wright, Josephine, and Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. eds. New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1992. (# ML55.S6877 1992)
  81. Zaimont, Judith Lang, ed. The Musical Woman: An International Perspective. Vol. I-III, Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1984, 1984, 1991.

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