| For the Birds: Women Composers Music History Speller Contributor(s): Zach, Miriam (Author) |
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ISBN: 1941892108 ISBN-13: 9781941892107 Publisher: Culicidae Press, LLC OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 8.5" W x 11" (0.44 lbs) 76 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An intuitive and interactive way to learn how to read music by combining music notation with biographies of twenty-five internationally known women composers from four thousand years ago to the present. The first of a multi-volume set. The biographies of the following women composers are included in this volume: Enheduanna, Kassia, Hildegard von Bingen, Maddalena Casulana, Francesca Caccini, Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Anna Amalia, Theresia von Paradis, Agata Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, Lili Oukalani, Agathe Backer Grondahl, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Teresa Carreno, Dame Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach, Nadia Boulanger, Florence Price, Jean Coulthard, Peggy Glanville Hicks, Marian McPartland, Erzsebet Szonyi, Sofia Gubaidulina, Kikuko Masumoto, and Anoushka Shankar. Several quiz pages with answers and a bibliography are included. |