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Louise Talma
Kendra Preston Leonard
其他書名
A Life in Composition
出版
Routledge
, 2016-04-22
主題
Music / History & Criticism
Music / Individual Composer & Musician
Music / General
Art / General
Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Social Science / Regional Studies
Social Science / Popular Culture
ISBN
1317103211
9781317103219
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I14GDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book analyses Talma’s works in the context of her life, focusing on the effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult life: her conversion to Catholicism as an adult, under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger, and her adoption of serial compositional techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analysis, feminist and queer musicology, and women’s autobiographical theory to examine Talma’s body of works, comprising some eighty pieces, this is the first full-length study of this pioneering composer. Exploring Talma’s compositional language, text-setting practices, and the incorporation of autobiographical elements into her works using her own letters, sketches, and scores, as well as a number of other relevant documents, this book positions Talma’s contributions to serial and atonal music in the United States, considers her role as a woman composer during the twentieth century, and evaluates the legacy of her works and career in American music.