The Heart of a Woman

The Heart of a Woman
Author: Rae Linda Brown
Publsiher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780252052118

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Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works. Price's twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price's major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.

Music for Life

Music for Life
Author: Fiona Maddocks
Publsiher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780571329397

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How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical context, discussing omissions, suggesting alternatives and always putting the music first.

Music by Black Women Composers

Music by Black Women Composers
Author: Helen Walker-Hill
Publsiher: Center for Black Music Rsrch
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1995
Genre: African American women composers
ISBN: 0929911040

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Dvorak s Prophecy And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

Dvorak s Prophecy  And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Author: Joseph Horowitz
Publsiher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393881257

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”

Useless Magic

Useless Magic
Author: Florence Welch
Publsiher: Crown Archetype
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780525577164

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Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.

The Songs of Fanny Hensel

The Songs of Fanny Hensel
Author: Stephen Rodgers
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780190919566

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Introduction / Stephen Rodgers -- Nature and Travel. The Wilderness at Home : Woods-Romanticism in Fanny Hensel's Eichendorff Songs / Amanda Lalonde ; Waldszenen and Abendbilder : Fanny Hensel, Nikolaus Lenau, and the Nature of Melancholy / Scott Burnham ; Songs of Travel : Fanny Hensel's Wanderings / Susan Wollenberg -- Settings of English Verse. Women's Private Cosmopolitanism in Literary Translation and Song : Fanny Hensel's Drei Lieder nach Heinrich Heine von Mary Alexander / Jennifer Ronyak ; In this elusive language: A Byron Song by Fanny Hensel / Susan Youens -- Tonal Ingenuity. You too may change : Tonal Pairing of the Tonic and Subdominant in Two Songs by Fanny Hensel / Tyler Osborne ; Plagal Cadences in Fanny Hensel's Songs / Stephen Rodgers -- Responses to Poetic Form. Working with Words : Revisions of Declamation in Fanny Hensel's Song Autographs / Harald Krebs ; Modulating Couplets in Fanny Hensel's Songs / Yonatan Malin -- Beyond Song/Beyond Hensel. Reading Poetry Through Music: Fanny Hensel and Others / Jürgen Thym ; Fanny Hensel's Lieder (ohne Worte) and the Boundaries of Song : The Curious Case of the Lied in Db major, Op. 8, No. 3 / R. Larry Todd.

Why Is My Piano Black and White The Ultimate Fun Facts Guide

Why Is My Piano Black and White   The Ultimate Fun Facts Guide
Author: Nathan Holder
Publsiher: Why Music
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2020-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1999753011

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Why Is My Piano Black and White? is the first children's reference book all about the weird and wonderful world of the piano! With over 100 illustrations, biographies, jokes, fun facts and repertoire lists, learn about jazz, rock, classical and gospel music with Olivia, Callum, Zaki and Pheobe!

Florence Mills

Florence Mills
Author: Bill Egan
Publsiher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0810850079

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This biography reveals the lost history of the life of the 1920s Black female international superstar. Mills was lionized by the crowned heads in Europe and opened doors for generations of Black female stars from Lena Horne to Diana Ross. Although her career and shows changed the nature of Black entertainment, and thereby the wider American popular culture, she was largely forgotten in later years. Anyone who wants to understand the history of Black entertainment from Bert Williams to Michael Jackson and, by implication, the history of American popular culture, needs to understand the ways in which Florence Mills changed the rules forever.