 International
Encyclopedia of Women Composers by Aaron I. Cohen
A must for
all those who have women's music at heart: music historians, educators,
libraries, musicologists, arts organizations, critics, etc. Full
of essential musical information about women composers and their
compositions.
"Cohen
is the first and only person whose international curiosity and
love of music led, without fanfare or publicity of any kind, to
a crusade around the world to find all the women composers, living
or dead, formerly know or unknown. He succeeded in locating some6000
over 70 countries. He amassed a collection of 7500 records, which
included the world's largest collection of the recorded works
of women composers. His research took eight years to produce the
first edition and four more years to produce this second edition."
-- Thora MIlroy Mills C.M., B.A. International Council of Women
Includes:
- Biographies
of over 6,000 Women Composers from 72 countries 2500 BCE to
the present
- 572 photographs
- Chronological
Tabulations by Century
- Composers
by Country
- Composers
by Occupation and Profession
- Composers
by the instruments They Play
- Composers
by Musical Form
- Composers
by instrument
- Women composers
(and their works) influenced by Shakespeare.
- A listing
of Pseudonyms used by the Women Composers.
- Discography
- Table of
the Musical Key Signatures in 25 languages
- Listing
of the Performing Rights Societies and other music associations
and women's organizations throughout the world
- A collection
of interesting facts, anecdotes and quotations regarding women
composers
“Thanks to
Aaron Cohen’s International Encyclopedia of Women Composers,
the world has at last become aware of its rich but long-neglected
heritage of music by women composers.” John Barkham--New York
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