Extraordinary Women in Support of Music

by Mona Mender

Overview

Celebrates the fascinating and diverse women who have done us all a great service by furthering music and helping musicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810846555
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Mona Mender has supported the arts in her own way as a teacher of piano and music theory, Chair of the Board of Regents and member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She also is the author of Music Manuscript Preparation: A Concise Guide (Scarecrow, 1991).

Editorial Reviews

...a masterly capsulized history of music in the Western tradition...entries are balanced biographies filled with insightful commentary and generous citations...with compassion and regret, Mender expresses the yearnings of prefeminist music lovers and the philosophies of their eras which relegated them to the background of the art world...altogether, Mender's work is a surprisingly delightful compendium.

American Reference Books Annual

...a fascinating set of vignettes on musically significant women from Eleanor of Acquitaine and Queen Elizabeth I to orchestra activist Helen M. Thompson and the renowned violin teacher Dorothy DeLay.

SymphonyNOW

...a labor of love that delivers more enjoyable reading than its scholarly title promises...rich in information...a fascinating look at the course of Western history from a musical perspective.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

...a fascinating set of vignettes on musically significant women from Eleanor of Acquitaine and Queen Elizabeth I to orchestra activist Helen M. Thompson and the renowned violin teacher Dorothy DeLay.--SymphonyNOW

...a labor of love that delivers more enjoyable reading than its scholarly title promises...rich in information...a fascinating look at the course of Western history from a musical perspective.--Sarasota Herald-Tribune

...a masterly capsulized history of music in the Western tradition...entries are balanced biographies filled with insightful commentary and generous citations...with compassion and regret, Mender expresses the yearnings of prefeminist music lovers and the philosophies of their eras which relegated them to the background of the art world...altogether, Mender's work is a surprisingly delightful compendium.--American Reference Books Annual

From the Publisher

...a masterly capsulized history of music in the Western tradition...entries are balanced biographies filled with insightful commentary and generous citations...with compassion and regret, Mender expresses the yearnings of prefeminist music lovers and the philosophies of their eras which relegated them to the background of the art world...altogether, Mender's work is a surprisingly delightful compendium.

American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)