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Women's History Month LibGuide: Music

Selected resources on women in the performing arts

Books on Women in Music

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24 French songs & arias by women composers / edited by Randi Marrazzo. [Worcester, Massachusetts] : Hildegard Publishing Company in cooperation with A Modern Reveal, [2023]. 37 F887ma Hiℓde 

24 Italian songs & arias by women composers / edited by Randi Marrazzo. [Worcester, Massachusetts] : Hildegard Publishing Company in cooperation with A Modern Reveal, [2020]. 37 It1ma Hiℓde 

Clarinet music by female composers: 18 pieces for clarinet (A and B-flat) and piano / edited by Sabine Pfeifer. Mainz ; New York : Schott, [2020] 20.5 K665pf Schott 

A collection of art songs by women composers / edited by Ruth Drucker. Fulton, Md. : HERS Publishing, [1988]. 37 C686dr HERS 

Art songs and spirituals by African-American women composers / Vivian Taylor, editor. Bryn Mawr, PA : Hildegard Publishing Company, 1995. 37 Ar75ta Hiℓde

At the piano with women composers / edited by Maurice Hinson. Van Nuys, Calif. : Alfred Pub. Co., 1990. 1 H596at Aℓf

Black women composers : a century of piano music (1893-1990) / Helen Walker-Hill, editor. Bryn Mawr, Pa. : Hildegard Publishing, 1992. 1 B568w Hiℓde

Contemporary anthology of music by women / edited by James R. Briscoe. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1997. ML95.21 .B774c 1997

English popular songs / edited by Barbara Garvey Jackson. Fayetteville, AR : ClarNan Editions, [2012]. 37 L623wo CℓarNan v.7 

The first solos : songs by women composers. Volume I : high voice / Randi Marrazzo, editor. Bryn Mawr, PA : Hildegard Pub. Co., 2000. 37 F519ma v.1h Hiℓde

The first solos : songs by women composers. Volume II : medium voice / Randi Marrazzo, editor. Bryn Mawr, PA : Hildegard Pub. Co., 2003. 37 F519ma v.2m Hiℓde

The first solos : songs by women composers. Volume III : low voice / Randi Marrazzo, editor. Bryn Mawr, PA : Hildegard Pub. Co., 2003. 37 F519ma v.3ℓ Hiℓde

Frauen komponieren : 22 Klavierstücke des 18.-20. Jahrhunderts = Female composers : 22 piano pieces from the 18th-20th century / herausgegeben von Eva Rieger, Käte Walter. 2. rev. Aufl. = 2nd rev. ed. Mainz ; New York : Schott, 1992. 1 F866ko Schott 1992

Frauen komponieren : 25 Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier = Female composers : 25 songs for voice and piano / herausgegeben von Eva Rieger und Käte Walter. Mainz ; New York : Schott, 1992. 37 F866ko Schott

Historical anthology of music by women / edited by James R. Briscoe. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1987. ML95.21 .B774h

Latin American and Iberian art songs by women composers = Canciones artísticas de compositoras ibéricas y latinoamericanas. Vol. 1. Barcelona : Mundo Arts Publications, 2020. 37 L349ca Mundo v.1

Latin American & Iberian art songs by women composers = Canciones artísticas de compositoras latinoamericanas e ibéricas. Vol. 2. Barcelona : Mundo Arts Publications, 2022. 37 L349ca Mundo v.2

Lieder by women composers of the classic era, volume 1 / edited by Barbara Garvey Jackson. Fayetteville, AR : ClarNan Editions, [1987]. 37 L623wo CℓarNan v.1

Lieder of Maria Adelheid Eichner, Juliane Reichardt (born Benda), Corona Schroter, and Maria Theresia von Paradis / edited by Barbara Garvey Jackson. Fayetteville, AR : ClarNan Editions, [1997]. 37 L623wo CℓarNan v.4 

New historical anthology of music by women / edited by James R. Briscoe. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2004. ML95.21 .N456b

New standards : 101 lead sheets by women composers / Terri Lyne Carrington, editor and curator. Boston : Berklee Press, 2022. 37 N421st Berk

Songs of Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy and Maria Cosway / edited by Barbara Garvey Jackson. Fayetteville, AR : ClarNan Editions, ©1994. 37 L623wo CℓarNan v.3 

"Una voce poco fa--" : ovvero le musiche delle primedonne rossiniane / Patricia Adkins Chiti. Roma : Garamond, 1992. 37 Un1 Garam

Women at the piano : solo works by female composers of the nineteenth century / edited by Nicholas Hopkins. [King of Prussia, Pennsylvania] : Carl Fischer, 2019. 1 W842ho Fisch

Women Composers Collection. HathiTrust Digital Library. Online resource

Women composers for the harpsichord / edited by Barbara Harbach. Bryn Mawr, Pa. : Elkan-Vogel, 1986. 1 W842co EℓkVog

Women composers : music through the ages / edited by Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman. New York : G.K. Hall, 1996. 0 W842co GKHaℓℓ

Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music​. Library of Congress Digital Collections

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