Books

•  Directory of American Women Composers. (1970) call number: 780.1 D628 (Stack Reference)

•  Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music , by Jane Glover. (2005) call number: 780.92 MOZART Glover

•  Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, edited by Julie Anne Sadie. (1994) call number: 780.922 NORTON (Reference)

•  Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, edited by Kimberly Marshall. (1993) call number: 780.82 R248

•  Unsung: a History of Women in American Music , by Christine Ammer. (1980) call number: 780.88 AMMER

•  Women Music Makers: an Introduction to Women Composers , by Janet Nichols. (1992) call number: 780.82 NICH

 

Scores

•  American Women Composers: Piano Music from 1865-1915. call number: 786.2044273 AMERICAN

•  Arias from Oratorios by Women Composers of the Eighteenth Century . call number: 783.623 ARIAS FR

•  Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers . call number: 783.2253 ART SONGS

•  Black Women Composers: a Century of Piano Music (1893-1990). call number: 786.20896 BLACK WO

•  Historical Anthology of Music by Women. call number: 780.820263 HIST

 

Music CD's

 

•  Chamber Works by Women Composers, by the Macalester Trio. (1991) Classical music. call number: F CHAMBER MACALEST Chamber

•  Donne Barocche: Women Composers from the Baroque Period . Classical music. call number: A CLASSIC COLL Donne

•  The Eternal Feminine, by Susanne Mentzer. (2001) Classical music. call number: D VOCAL MENTZER Eternal

•  Her Infinite Variety: Celtic Women in Music and Song. (1998) Popular world music. call number: Q CELTIC COLL Women

•  Lilith Fair: a Celebration of Women in Music. ( 1998) Rock music. call number: M POP COLL Lilith

•  R*E*S*P*E*C*T : a Century of Women in Music. (1999) Popular music.

call number: OVERSZ M POP COLL Respect

•  Women of Note . (1997) Classical music. call number: A CLASSIC COLL Women of

 

Other formats

 

  • Online Resources: American Women's History Online , by Facts on File. Please see a librarian for free access.

 

TIP: Many more scores and sound recordings by female artists can be found in our collection by doing a search in the OPAC for anyone of the following famous women composers:

•  Amy Beach

•  Lili Boulenger

•  Fanny Mendelssohn

•  Meredith Monk

•  Clara Schumann

•  Hildegard von Bingen

•  Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

 

Similarly an author search in the OPAC for your favorite women performers such as Judy Garland, Beyoncé, Julie Andrews, Kathleen Battle, or the artist of your choice will list recordings by those famous female performers too.

 

March 2012

Call the Reference Desk at 413-263-6828 ext. 213, your branch library, or AskALibrarian to reserve a book today!



updated : November 4, 2008