Performing Arts Library
College of St. Catherine

Reference Books: Bibliography

Last updated: 21 January 2000

Boenke, Heidi M. Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Performing Arts Library ML128 .F7 B6 1988 (NOT on Reference)

Ericson, Margaret D. Women and Music: A Selective Annotated Bibliography on Women and Gender Issues in Music, 1987-1992. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996.
Performing Arts Library Reference ML128 .W7 E75 1996

Important new source which lists publications dealing with the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of gender and music. Does not, for example, include biographical studies of individual women musicians. International in scope.

 

Block, Adrienne Fried, and Carol Neuls-Bates. Women in American Music: A Bibliography of Music and Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Performing Arts Library Reference ML128 .W7 B6

Lists compositions by women and publications about all aspects of women in American music from Colonial times through the 1970s. Scope includes women in art music and popular music, and women as composers, educators, and performers.

 

Green, Miriam Stewart. Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.
Performing Arts Library Reference ML156.4 .V7 S83

Jackson, Barbara Garvey. Say Can You Deny Me: A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th through the 18th Centuries. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
Performing Arts Library Reference ML128 .W7 J3 1994

Important new source which "lists the locations of the known extant manuscripts and printed sources of early music by women composers from the sixteenth century until about 1830."

 

Meggett, Joan M. Keyboard Music by Women Composers: A Catalog and Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Performing Arts Library Reference ML128 .H35 M43

"...A catalog of 290 women composers for the keyboard... Brief factual information is provided for each composer along with details of her works and bibliographical references."

 

Skowronski, JoAnn. Women in American Music: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978.
Performing Arts Library Reference ML128 .W7 S6

This bibliography includes publications from the years 1776-1976 which treat the subject of women in all areas of American music, from religious to popular.

 

Stern, Susan. Women Composers: A Handbook. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978.
Performing Arts Library Reference ML105 .S7