Classically Trained without a Leash

Vocal Performance (Finished). Music Education (Continuing) Anime.Choir Director. Cosplayer. ENFP. Cat Lady. KOTH. Ethereal ideals. Unusual obsessions with the word Muffins.

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[mydadisindianajones]

Person: Wow, why did you get all dressed up just to go to the grocery store?

Me: 

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[aheartofwood]

my mom ghostwrote this

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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

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Nannerl Mozart (1751-1829)

Wikipedia 

Sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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[vespertineflora]

[audio transcript]

Woman: He’s fine. He misses you.

Man: Give him my love.

Woman: Will do. 

[woman looks at ridiculous oversized bird]

Woman: SQUAWK

Bird: SQUAWK

THE END

[stability]

Good to know shitposting has been around since the inception of cinema

[vanish]

daydreaming about stuff that’s probably never going to happen is my favorite hobby

[inkxlenses]

Belle of the Ball (Sallon Frida 2018 Collection)- (1/?)

[shiftythrifting]

Found at Goodwill, Bellingham, WA.

[fortheloveofotomegames]

Official post from Cybird about the 2019 release of Ikemen Vampire!!!!!

[stilllifequickheart]

Giovanna Garzoni

A Bitch

1648

[avant-sad]

um, rude? let her enjoy her snack in peace

[tiaramania]

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia’s Ruby Kokoshnik

Find out more at Tiara Mania

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Guo Pei | Fall/Winter 2018 Couture

[europesroyals]

♡♡♡ Royal Wedding Photo Challenge 2018 ♡♡♡

May 10th - Top 3 Favorite Wedding Dresses: #2  Princess Elizabeth, Heiress Presumptive wearing Norman Hartnell

[manticoreimaginary]

New Zealand’s new water safety mascot is amazing and his instagram is a gift

[spybrarian]

OKAY I just noticed the thing @manticoreimaginary FORGOT TO MENTION is that his name is the Swim Reaper.

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[casual-caroline]

me running after my pets to see what’s in their mouths

[dniudsnf]

ways to look more angelic:

carry flowers everywhere

pink or gold eye shadow 

wear long ankle dresses

soft humming

have a pink glowy blush

[ishtarelisheba]

wield a flaming sword

[we-aim-to-misbehave]

Be covered in eyes

[garaviel]

three pairs of wings

[wellpardonme]

Wheel

[tinyflower-bouquet-deactivated2]

announce your arrival by screaming “FEAR NOT” everywhere you go