From Convent to Concert Hall A Guide to Women Composers

Subjects:

• The Arts » Music (General)
• The Arts » Classical Music
• The Arts » Music Theory/Composition
• Women's Studies » Women in Literature & the Arts

Awards:

• ACRL "Most Essential Work" 2002-2003

Reviews:

• This unique historical survey profiles for the lay reader more than 150 women composers from the ninth century to the present in their historical and cultural milieus....we should be grateful to the writers for gathering all this information in a single volume, providing an excellent point of departure. Recommended for public and academic libraries.
  —Library Journal January 2004
• This noble book brings together a great deal of material in an eminently usable form. Part of the volume's superiority lies in its consistent organization; another part is its concise, coherent melding of historical, contextual, and biographical information. Chapters are chronological, beginning with medieval times and going through the 20th century. Each chapter presents informative biographies of representative composers, precedeed by a general introduction to the period and followed by a time line that plots important musical figures and events against developments in history and politics, science and education, and arts and literature; then come bibliographies, discographies, and selective lists of works....Essential. All collections; all levels.
  —Choice April 2004
• From Convent to Concert Hall deserves to be in the reference collections of both academic and public libraries that cater to musicians and women's studies programs. The authors have paid remarkable attention to detail regarding facts and dates. The excellent scholarship and overall design of this volume make it very useful for librarians as well as instructors. The book is recommended for all general music collections and as a text book for use in specialized music courses.
  —Reference & User Services Quarterly Summer 2004
• [S]tands out among other recent texts on women in music.
  —Feminist Collections Winter 2004
• Since recent years have seen an increase in the amount of scholarship devoted to this subject, there is a need for reference material to support the resulting courses of study. This carefully orchestrated work can play more than one part: it is both reference book, packed with a number of useful features; and textbook, even including a "Suggested Syllabus for a Fifteen-Week Semester with Three Class Hours per Week."...With its thoughtful organization, cleary written and carefully researched text, and numerous special features, this will be a welcome addition to any academic or large public library music reference collection.
  —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin March 15, 2004

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Sylvia Glickman
• The Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Martha Furman Schleifer
• The 17th Century by Barbara Garvey Jackson
• The 18th Century by Valerie Goertzen
• The 19th Century by E. Douglas Bomberger
• The 20th Century by Adeline Mueller
• Appendix A: A Chronological List of Women Composers
• Appendix B: A Geographical List of Women Composers
• Appendix C: Suggested Syllabi for Courses on Women Composers or Women and Music
• Glossary
• General Bibliography
• Index

PDF Catalogs:

Sale Catalog 2008.pdf