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SCHOLARSHIP
IN MUSICOLOGY & THEORY:
Books. Currently, I am preparing a critical edition of Amy Beach's songs. This task involves tracking down any manuscripts that exist and comparing them with the first editions, which were published between 1885 and 1941. I'm tracking down many of the first editions, too, for they have been out of print for many years. I spend time at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Missouri at Kansas City, the primary repositories of Beach's songs. Articles. "Reclaiming Gender in Modernist Music," in NWSA Journal 15.3 (Fall-Winter 2003-2004). Reviews. Here are some of my recent ones: Books-- Paula Gillett, Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: "Encroaching on All Man's Privileges" (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000); Adrienne Fried Block, Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998); and Judith Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), in The National Women's Studies Association Journal 13/2 (Summer 2001): 161-166. Review: Cyrilla Barr, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music (Macmillan, 1998), in Music Library Association Notes 56/2 (December 1999). Compact discs-- Violetta Dinescu, in the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, Winter 2002-2003. Keyboard
Wizards of the Gershwin Era, volume 7: Raie da Costa, in the International
Alliance for Women in Music Journal, Winter 1998-1999. CREATIVITY IN COMPOSITION:
"Psalm 139: Thou Art There!," for tenor, oboe, horn, 'cello, and harp; alternative arrangement for SB and keyboard. Premiere tba. "The Story of Mary and Elizabeth," for soprano, flute obbligato, and keyboard. Premiere: 3 December 2002. Wait Chapel, Wake Forest University. "Morning
Light," unison hymn with descant, for the first anniversary of
September 11, 2001. Text author: Peggy A. Haymes. Premiere: 8-11 September
2002, Centenary United Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC; Knollwood
Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC; Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary School of Music Chapel, Fort Worth, TX. |
