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[viola-rules]

an introduction to women composers

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Maddalena Casulana (1544-1590) from Italy 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Francesca Caccini (1587-1641) from Italy  📚 Wikipedia   🎵 IMSLP She was friend with Artmisia Gentileschi

Barbara Strozzi (1619-1977) from Italy  📚 Wikipedia   🎵 IMSLP

Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) from France 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1739-1807) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Marianna Martines (1744-1812) from Austria 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831) from Poland 📚Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) from France 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Fanny Mendelssohn [Hensel after marriage] (1805-47) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP Sister of Felix Mandelssohn

Clara Schumann [nee Wieck] (1819-1896) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP Married to Robert Schumann

Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929) from Sweden 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Terea Carreño (1853-1917) from Venezuela 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) from France 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP She was the first female composer to be awarded the Légion d’Honneur in 1913.

Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) from England 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP Not only a suffreagette, but also a lesbian who was involved with Virginia Woolf and Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, among others

Adele aus der Ohe (1861-1937) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵IMSLP She studied with Franz Liszt. She was friends with and performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with him conducting. 

Amy Beach (1867-1944) from the USA 📚 Wikipedia    🎵IMSLP

Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) from Croatia 📚Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Rebacca Clarke (1886-1879) from England 📚Wikipedia   🎵IMSLP    🌀Rebecca Clarke.org (I have access to almost all her published works, let me know if you want me to email scans of something to you)

She studied with Lionel Tertis and briefly sang under Vaughan Williams. In 1919 her Viola Sonata tied in the Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music with Ernest Bloch’s Viola Sonata. She was also friends with Frank Bridge. In 1912 she was one of the 6 female musicians allowed into the Queen’s Hall Orchestra (later became the LSO)

Florence Price (1887-1953) from the USA 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP She began studying at the New England Conservatory after she graduated high school at 14. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered her Symphony No 1 in E minor on June 15, 1933, making Price’s piece the first composition by an African-American woman to be played by a major orchestra

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) from France 📚 Wikipedia   🎵 IMSLP She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome when she was only 19, in 1912.

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) from the USA 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP Became the first women to be granted the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930

Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) from England and Ireland 📚 Wikipedia    🌀Biography

Sofia Guabaidulina (1931-present) from Russia 📚 Wikipedia    🎼 YouTube

Joan Tower (1938-present) from the USA 📚 Wikipedia    🎼 YouTube She has 3 Grammy Awards and and she was a member of the Da Capo Chamber Players who won the Naumberg Award.

Kaija Saariaho (1952-present) from Finland 📚 Wikipedia    🎼 YouTube

Nicole Lizée (1973-present) from Canada 🌀 Nicole Lizee.com    🌀 CMC

Cheryl Frances-Hoad (1980-present) from England 📚 Wikipedia    🌀Cheryl FrancesHoad.co.uk

Dobrinka Tabakova (1980-present) from Bulgaria  📚 Wikipedia    🌀 Dobrinka.com

Caroline Shaw (1982-present) from the USA 📚Wikipedia    🌀Caroline Shaw.com (listen to Entre’act, I’ve played it, so GOOD!) She won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013, the youngest ever, at only 30.

Hannah Kendall (1984-present) from England & the Caribean  📚 Wikipedia    🌀Hannah Kendall.co.uk

Fjóla Evans from Iceland & Canada 📚Fjiola Evans.com    🎼 SoundCloud

Add any other women composers that you know of to this post!

#WomenInMusic   #WomenComposers

[nannerlmozartofficial]

Nannerl Mozart (1751-1829)

Wikipedia 

Sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia-de]

Singing in the Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran

The acoustics  in the 400 year old mosque are amazing & notes hang in the air with crystal clarity. The singer is a student from northern Iran visiting Isfahan & had always wanted to sing in the mosque because of its unique acoustic resonance qualities. You have to stand on the tiled square for perfect effect.

[whendaysarerainy-deactivated201]

Somebody please tell me what he’s singing, I’m in tears

[mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia-de]

It’s a classical Iranian song by Dariush Rafiee called Be Sooye To. It’s a love song. Here’s the original it’s so ancient it’s literally older than my parents. Lots of covers have been made too 1, 2, 3.

Here are the lyrics (the English translation doesn’t really do it justice):

به سوی تو، به شوق روی تو

Be sooye to, br showghe rooe to - to your direction, desiring seeing your visage.

به طرف کوی تو

To the direction of your location,

سپیده دم آیم

sepidehdam ayam - I will be coming in the dawn,

مگر تو را جویم

Magar to ra jooyam - so that I might find you,

بگو کجایی

Bego kojaayee? - tell me where are you? نشان تو گه از زمین گاهی

neshane to gah az zamin gaahi.. - once from the earth do I search for a sign from you,

ز آسمان جویم

ze aaseman jooyam - [ and once I seek to find a sign of you] from the skies

ببین چه بی پروا

bebin che bi parva - see how fearless I am,

ره تو می پویم

rahe to mipooyam - as I am walking down the road that takes me to where you are,

بگو کجایی…..

bego kojaayee? - tell me where are you?

کی رود رخ ماهت از نظرم

key ravad rokhe mahat az nazaram - Would the picture of your beautiful visage that resembles the full moon ever be wiped off my mind?

به غیر نامت کی نام دگر ببرم

be gheyre namat key name degar bebaram? - what other name would I call out but yours?

اگر تو را جویم

Agar to ra jooyam - If I ever find you,

حدیث دل گویم

Hadise del gooyam - I would tell you the stories that weigh on my chest,

بگو کجایی؟

begoo kojaayee? - Tell me where are you?

به دست تو دادم

Be daste to dadam - I handed you

دل پریشانم

dele parishanam - my desperate heart,

دگر چه خواهی

degar cheh khahi? - What else do you require?

فتاده ام از پا

fetadeh am az pa - I am so hurt in my feet for walking so long in search of you بگو که از جانم

bego ke az janam - tell me that from my life,

دگر چه خواهی

degar cheh mikhahi - what else do you require?

یکدم از خیال من Yekdam az khiyal-e-man - not even a moment from my dreams

نمی روی ای غزال من

nemiravi ey ghazaal.. - you ever depart my gazelle,

دگر چه پرسی ز حال من

degar cheh persi ze hale man - Why on earth do you ask about my well being,

تا هستم من

ta hastam man - as long as I am alive

اسیر کوی توام Aseere kooye to-am - I am being taken as a hostage to where you reside,

به آرزوی توام be aarezooye to-am - I live desiring you,

اگر تو را جویم

حدیث دل گویم بگو کجایی؟

اگر تو را جویم

Agar to ra jooyam - If I ever find you,

حدیث دل گویم

Hadise del gooyam - I would tell you the stories that weigh on my chest,

بگو کجایی؟

begoo kojaayee? - Tell me where are you?

[lingsua]

TIME TO START STUDYING FARSI

[colonelfind-it]

a dnd party of made up entirely of orc bards

[colonelfind-it]

an orchestra

[phoenixpen]

[lowbrassdad]

what I aspire to become

[zachdoeslife-deactivated2020040]

Important discoveries being made over here.

[cymbal-5-deactivated20240905]

oh my god😂

[corny-calypso]

longlifebrooke

[smeliot-deactivated20220528]

this is terrible

[omg-horns]

@theofficialdilley

[birdrhetorics]

my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20′s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba

[the-flute-jesus]

[kingpinnn]

The most beautiful thing I have  heard all day and you have the opportunity to hear it too.

[honeydewleaf-deactivated2017123]

One of my faves that was lost to the internet is back

[alexander]

does anyone know the name of this instrument and possibly the source of this video?

[weird-syrup]

it’s a hang drum :)

[deactivated-account-201874662]

Everytime I see this I reblog.

[saxaliciouss-blog]

GUYS LOOK AT THIS GLASS CLARINET.

Does this scream “Not for marching band” or what???

[clarinethappiness]

I want one. So bad.

[sprouting-colours-deactivated20]

Wouldn’t the inside be opaque because of the steam/condensation? Unless he’s not really playing

[pronetoinjury-deactivated201412]

There’s a chemical that you can put on the inside so that it won’t fog up, but I’m not sure why you would bother with it

[deldon]

If you went out of your way to purchase a see-through instrument why wouldn’t you take every necessary step to ensure its transparency?

[thehobb1t-deactivated20200214]

aaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

[bandjokes101]

No way

[thejonster13]

would this thing shatter if you played a really high note on it

[thatnerdalex]

not if it was made to make sure that doesn’t happen

[thejonster13]

science side of tumblr help how does it work

[tofu-pofu]

a clarinet is not physically capable of producing a tone with the frequency to shatter glass

[theshantiestme11ophone]

False

A clarinet is not physically capable of producing a tone

At all

[sopranoandthealtoclef]

A clarinet is capable of producing a tone. A clarinet is capable of producing a questionable tone.

[dutchster]

person: “what instrument do you play” this guy: “i play the chair”

[em-ajor]

My choir director told us a story once about an orchestra conductor he knew who was conducting and accidentally stuck his baton up his nose on an up beat and tbh I think about that a lot

[new-world-symphony]

the instruments as things people have said at my school:

flute: "sometimes I wonder ‘why do I hate everyone?’, and then I just look at my classmates and it all becomes clear.“ 

oboe: “I will high-five you. in the face. with a chair.“ 

clarinet: “walks into health class…eating a cookie.“ 

bassoon: “you kids with your Trek Wars and your Star Stars.“ 

saxophone: “I thought those were mixed nuts, but they were actually rocks.“ 

french horn: "when I die I think I’ll turn into a record with two songs: ‘still alive’ and ‘stayin’ alive’." 

trumpet: "FIRE BLANKET: keeps you warm in case of a fire." 

trombone: "basically, if you had a few french fries all the girls would come running.” “that’s still true." 

euphonium/baritone: "the east is red.” “wait, the yeast is bread?" 

tuba: "thugs wear their hats to the side! I’m not even wearing a hat!" 

violin: "I’m in a musical mood.” “you call that music?" 

viola: "what have you got?” “absolutely nothing." 

cello: "we had a giant, collective, hissy fit" 

bass: "ugh, I have to relearn bass-clef.” “looks like you’re in treble!" 

percussion: “there’s a beeping noise over there.” “oh probably the bomb.”

harp: "enough about books, rules, and supplies. today we are going to talk about murder." 

piano: "stop playing the keyboard, you’re like a weird cat" 

conductor: "I throw markers at people. get used to it.”

[thefaultinourslides]

Sheet music, but every time it says crescendo it gets louder

[it-s-a-classic]

Sheet music, but everytime it says diminuendo all of the brass section doesn’t care

[thefaultinourslides]

Finally, a realistic addition to my post

[orchestra-god]

reblog if you think kazoos should be in orchestra

[thechanelmuse]

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

[erinbowbooks]

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

 was admitted to Julliard at 8.  

was performing in top venues by 16.  

pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  

was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  

went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  

refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

[domduongart]

@theladyragnell

[violent-darts]

Let’s un-forget her.

[gay-440]

I'm trying to prove that classical music isn't boring. Can you give me facts that show how hardcore classical music, musicians, and composers are (like the 1812 overture canons or the riot of spring)?

I’d love to have a more in-depth discussion of this sometime, but here’s a few facts off the top of my head

Mozart used to stay out all night partying and getting laid and then he’d sleep until noon and his long-suffering jerk of a father had to drag him out of bed to practice

He also wrote the overture for the opera Don Giovanni the morning it premiered, while extremely hungover

The interval between a perfect 4th and a perfect 5th (a tritone) was called “the devil’s interval”, and for centuries composers avoided it at all costs because it was believed to cause madness, violence, and sexual desire

Franz Liszt played so intensely that he physically destroyed pianos and they had to invent a stronger one (which is the model still used today)

Another thing about Liszt: women used to throw their underwear at him while he was performing. He was the first one-man boy band.

At the premiere of The Rite of Spring the audience was so alarmed by the dissonance and non-traditional style that they left their seats to storm out or beat each other up in the aisles

Many symphonies use non-traditional percussion like canons or massive wooden mallets, modern classical composers like John Cage like to stick things in piano strings

Shostakovich was the most hardcore composer (though I’m biased because he’s my fave). He barely escaped being exiled or killed by Stalin while continuing to write music containing forbidden folk melodies or thunderous movements depicting the dictator himself.

Paganini had no teeth and apparently looked like the devil

If folks have other facts I’d love to hear them!

[fluterants]

J.S. Bach straight up lost one of his first jobs because he got in a sword fight with one of his students. He was 20. His student was 23. Apparently he called the student a “nanny-goat bassoonist”.

There is an opera about a magical ring that gives the wearer the power to rule the world. Through all the carnage for ownership of the ring, ALL the gods die, and Valhalla is destroyed. The opera is known as “The Ring Cycle” by Richard Wagner, and it is 15 hours long.

Oh and another thing about Liszt, he used to wear gloves and then throw them dramatically into the audience (of what I can only imagine as screaming teenage girls) before he performed.

Mozart wrote a piece called “"Leck mich im Arsch“, or “Lick Me in the Arse.”

Before batons was used for conducting, they used “pointed staffs” that would beat the tempo against the ground. Jean-Baptiste Lully stabbed himself through the foot with it, and therefore died from gangrene from the wound.

There is an aria in Lucia di Lammermoor in which the soprano has gone completely mad and has stabbed her husband to death. She sings with an accompanying flute (a bird that she’s hearing in her head), while in her wedding dress - covered in blood.

In Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique, movement IV - “The March to the Scaffold”, the music depicts a young man’s march to the guillotine. You can hear the moment his head is cut off and bounces down the stairs.

I could probably go on forever. Classical music is fascinating!

[petimetrek]

I just found out that there’s an instrument called the octobasse….

…and it sounds like hell

[count-di-luna]

don’t let Wagner see this

[hannahismyharto]

Did they use this to make the music in Little Nightmares??