LibGuides: Women Composers: Background and Reference Sources

Reference Books and Background Information

Women and Music : A History by Karin Anna Pendle (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780253115034
Publication Date: 2001-04-22
This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America.
Women Composers of Classical Music : 369 biographies from 1550 into the 20th century by Mary F. McVicker
Call Number: ML390 .M4647 2011
ISBN: 9780786443970
Publication Date: 2011-02-14
The Norton-Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers by Julie Anne Sadie; Rhian Samuel
Call Number: ML105 .N38 1995
ISBN: 9780393034875
Publication Date: 1995-09-17
Available at both Crossett and Jennings Libraries
From Convent to Concert Hall : a guide to women composers by Sylvia Glickman (Editor); Martha Furman Schleifer (Editor)
Call Number: ML82 .F76 2003
ISBN: 9781573564113
Publication Date: 2003-10-30
Unsung : a history of women in American music by Christine Ammer
Call Number: ML82 .A45 2001
ISBN: 9781574670585
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Women's Leadership in Western music since 1800 by Rachel Lumsden
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781412979344
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
from "Gender and Women's Leadership : A Reference Handbook"
New Historical Anthology of Music by Women by James R. Briscoe (Editor)
Call Number: ML128.W7 N49 2004
ISBN: 9780253216830
Publication Date: 2004-08-11
Women musicians and composers (Romantic era) by Paula Gillett
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780191726996
Publication Date: 2009
Women Composers, Conductors and Musicians of the Twentieth Century : selected biographies by Jane W. LePage
Call Number: ML105.L4 W6 1988
ISBN: 9780810812987
Publication Date: 1980-12-01

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