Music and the skillful listener [[electronic resource] ] : American women compose the natural world / / Denise von Glahn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779329003321
• Autore: Von Glahn Denise <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, Ind. ; ; Indianapolis, Ind., : Indiana University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-253-00793-3; 1-299-10600-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Collana: Music, nature, place
• Disciplina: 780.92/520973
• Soggetti: Women composers - United States; Music by women composers - History and criticism; Nature in music
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A context for composers : within the nature-writing tradition -- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H.H.A. Beach) -- Marion Bauer -- Louise Talma -- Pauline Oliveros -- Joan Tower -- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -- Victoria Bond -- Libby Larsen -- Emily Doolittle -- Conclusions : the repercussions of listening.
• Sommario/riassunto: For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim ""be seen and not heard."" In Skillful Listeners, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world:Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates ""nature composing"" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their litera