Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900-1960

In Analytic Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900-1960, editors Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft collect innovative reinterpretations of women composers' work over the first half of the twentieth century.

Laurel Parsons is Full Teaching Professor of Music Theory and Co-ordinator of Aural Skills at the University of Alberta. Her research interests focus on the music of British composer Elisabeth Lutyens, Danish composer Else Marie Pade, and aural skills pedagogy related to post-secondary students with learning differences. From 2012-15 she chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women.
Brenda Ravenscroft is Professor of Music Theory and Dean of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Her research focuses on post-tonal American music, text and music, rhythmic organization, and pedagogy. She chaired the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women from 2006 to 2009.

Acknowledgements
About the Companion Website
Chapter 1. Introduction
Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft
Part 1. Music for Voice
Chapter 2. Alma Mahler-Werfel, "Licht in der Nacht" (1901): Searching for the Light: Harmonic Cycles and Feedback Loops in Alma Mahler-Werfel's "Licht in der Nacht"
Kenneth M. Smith
Chapter 3. Rebecca Clarke, "Tiger, Tiger" (1933): Extended Tonality and Text-Setting in Rebecca Clarke's "Tiger, Tiger"
Zachary Bernstein
Chapter 4. Ethel Smyth, The Boatswain's Mate (1913-1914): A Wrinkle? Gender and Motive in Ethel Smyth's The Boatswain's Mate
Rachel Lumsden
Chapter 5. Ruth Crawford, Chants for Women's Chorus (1930): "Not yet accepted as singing": Ruth Crawford's "To An Angel" from Chants for Women's Chorus
Ellie M. Hisama
Part 2. Instrumental Music
Chapter 6. Florence B. Price, Piano Sonata in E minor (1932): Culture and Craft in Florence Price's Piano Sonata in E minor (First Movement)
Horace J. Maxile, Jr.
Chapter 7. Galina Ustvolskaya, Sonata for Violin and Piano (1952): Motivic Patterns, Repetition, and Formal Structures in Galina Ustvolskaya's Sonata for Violin and Piano
Tim Sullivan
Chapter 8. J. M. Beyer, String Quartet no. 2 (1933-34): Imagination and Method: J. M. Beyer's String Quartet no. 2
Marguerite Boland
Chapter 9. Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Sinfonia da Pacifica (1952-53): Avant-garde or Postmodern? The Melody-Rhythm Concept in Peggy Glanville-Hicks's Sinfonia da Pacifica
Victoria Rogers
Glossary
Bibliography
Index