Scarecrow Press
Pages: 232
Trim: 7 x 9
978-0-8108-5029-3 • Paperback • November 2005 • $59.00 • (£45.00)
978-1-4617-0650-2 • eBook • November 2005 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
Catherine Roma is associate professor of music at Wilmington College. She is also founder and artistic director of MUSE Cincinnati's Women's Choir, and co-founder and director of the Martin Luther King Coalition Chorale.
Part 1 List of Figures
Part 2 List of Musical Examples
Part 3 Foreword by Karin Pendle
Part 4 Acknowledgments
Part 5 Introduction
Part 6 Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)
Part 7 Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
Part 8 Thea Musgrave (1928-)
Part 9 The Contemporary Period
Chapter 10 Appendix A: Lutyens' Proposal for the Composer's Concourse
Chapter 11 Appendix B: The Published Choral Compositions of Elisabeth Lutyens in Chronological Order
Chapter 12 Appendix C: Withdrawn Choral Works by Elisabeth Lutyens in the British Museum
Chapter 13 Appendix D: Text for Requiem for the Living
Chapter 14 Appendix E: Text for Excerpta Tractati Logico-Philosophici
Chapter 15 Appendix F: The Choral Compositions of Elizabeth Maconchy in Chronological Order
Chapter 16 Appendix G: Text for Nocturnal
Chapter 17 Appendix H: Text for "Siren's Song"
Chapter 18 Appendix I: Text for The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (Maiden's Song from St. Winefred's Well)
Chapter 19 Appendix J: The Choral Compositions of Thea Musgrave in Chronological Order
Chapter 20 Appendix K: Text for Rorate Coeli
Chapter 21 Appendix L: Text for The Last Twilight
Chapter 22 Appendix M: Text for "O caro m'è il sonno"
Part 23 Bibliography
Part 24 Index
Part 25 About the Author
Roma (music, Wilmington College) examines the choral works of British composers Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907- 1994), and Thea Musgrave (b. 1928). She provides biographical background, discusses their compositional style, the twelve-tone technique of Lutyens, and her Requiem for the Living, Motet, and "Country of the Stars." The works of Maconchy under analysis are Nocturnal, "Siren's Song," and Creatures, while the focus on Musgrave's output is in her Four Madrigals, Cantata for a Summer's Day, "Memento Creatoris," "John Cook," Rorate Coeli, and The Last Twilight. The concluding chapter briefly notes other contemporary women composing in Britain. The appendixes contain texts and catalogs of each composer's choral pieces.
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