Performing Arts Library
College of St. Catherine

Women and Music: History and Criticism

Last updated: 21 January 2000

Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Performing Arts Library ML82 .A45

 

Berdes, Jane L. Women Musicians of Venice: Musical Foundations, 1525-1855. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Performing Arts Library ML290.8 .V26 B47 1993

 

Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music. Edited by Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
St. Paul Campus Library Lower Level ML82 .C42 1994

 

Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Performing Arts Library ML3890 .C58 1993

 

Drinker, Sophie Hutchinson. Brahms and his Women's Choruses. Merion, PA: The author, 1952.
Performing Arts Library ML410 .B8 D7

A history, based on original source material, of the Hamburger Frauenchor, a women's chorus founded by Johannes Brahms in the 1850s in Hamburg, Germany.

 

Drinker, Sophie Hutchinson. Music and Women: The Story of Women in Their Relation to Music. New York: Coward-McCann, 1948.
St. Paul Campus Library Lower Level ML82 .D7 1948

 

En travesti : Women, Gender Subversion, Opera. Edited by Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia

Juliana Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Performing Arts Library ML2100 .E6 1995

 

Fenelon, Fania. Playing for Time. New York: Atheneum, 1977.
St. Paul Campus Library, Lower Level ML429 .F436 A33

"An extraordinary, personal account of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz-Birkenau."

 

Green, Lucy. Music, Gender, Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Performing Arts Library, ML82.G74 1997

 

Halstead, Jill. The Woman Composer: Creativity and the Gendered Politics of Musical Composition. Aldershot [England]; Brookfield, 1997.

Performing Arts Library ML82 .H35 1997

 

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Performing Arts Library ML82 .M38 1990

 

Music, Gender, and Culture. Edited by Marcia Herndon and Suzanne Ziegler. Wilhelmshaven, West Germany: Florian Noetzel Verlag, 1990.
Performing Arts Library ML82 .M77 1990

 

Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions. Edited by Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.
Performing Arts Library ML82 .R43 1993

 

Roth, Henry. Master Violinists in Performance. Neptune City, NJ: Paganiniana Publications, 1982.
Performing Arts Library ML857 .R6

Contains a chapter, "Women and the Violin," pp. 245-313, which discusses Erica Morini, Ginette Neveu, Ida Haendel, Guila Bustabo, and many other women violinists.

 

Sheader, Catherine. Contributions of Women: Music. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1985.
Performing Arts Library ML3929 .S33 1985

Consists mostly of biographical information about Antonia Brico (a conductor), Beverly Sills, Leontyne Price, and Dylana Jenson (a violinist).

 

Tick, Judith. American Women Composers before 1870. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1983.
Performing Arts Library ML390 .T53 1983

 

Women and Music: A History. Edited by Karin Pendle. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Performing Arts Library ML82 .W6 1991

 

Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present. Edited by Carol Neuls-Bates. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Copy 1: Performing Arts Library ML82 .N48
Copy 2: St. Paul Campus Library, Lower Level, ML82 .N48 (cop. 2)

A collection of firsthand accounts of women composers, conductors, and performers. Hildegard of Bingen, Francesca Caccini, Marianne von Martinez, Clara Schumann, Amy Fay, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ethel Smyth, Nadia Boulanger, and Ruth Crawford Seeger are among the composers included.

 

Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. Edited by Jane Bowers and Judith Tick. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Performing Arts Library ML82 .W67 1986