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The solo piano music of selected contemporary Canadian women composers: database, audio samples, and annotated bibliography
Description
Women's contributions to the history of Canadian music can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. However, women's achievements then, and still somewhat now, are often overlooked and as a result, piano solo works by Canadian women composers are largely unknown. The purpose of this study is to promote the wealth of solo piano repertoire composed by Canadian women, and to report the results in an accessible and comprehensible format for students, teachers, and performers at all levels. The research focuses on the most recent piano music by female composers born in or after 1950 whose compositions are available through the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) library. Brief biographies of included composers note their accomplishments, compositional output, and style characteristics. Annotations for the 103 works studied, written by twenty-six composers, include information about harmonic schemes, meters, tempos, durations, dates of the composition, CMC call number, level of difficulty, commissions, musical excerpts, premieres, and style characteristics. The style characteristics section includes composer's notes, technical challenges, musical characteristics, pedagogical values, and other pertinent information about a given piece. Since the goal of this project is to stimulate the awareness of music composed by Canadian women in a truly global sense, the research paper is supplemented by a website--www.canadianwomencomposers.com--that contains all the information found in the written portion of the annotations. This website also offers short audio samples of the compositions. The writer wishes to encourage all students, performers, and teachers to explore this resource, which reveals the richness of solo piano repertoire written by Canadian women composers.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Kim, Joo Yeon Tarina (Author)
- Meyer Thompson, Janice (Thesis advisor)
- Cosand, Walter (Committee member)
- Hamilton, Robert (Committee member)
- Humphreys, Jere T (Committee member)
- Rogers, Rodney (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
xviii, 208 pages : illustrations, music
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9115
Statement of Responsibility
by Joo Yeon Tarina Kim
Level of coding
full
Note
Website containing audio samples not available as of May 5, 2020
thesis
Partial requirement for: D.M.A., Arizona State University, 2011
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172)
Field of study: Music
System Created
- 2011-08-12 04:27:17
System Modified
- 2021-08-30 01:53:35
- 3 years 2 months ago
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