I spent years as a specialist music librarian, trying to boost our holdings of music by women composers. This chapter would have been on my list of useful links, had I come across it before retirement from librarianship! I’ll share it here now; tomorrow I’ll be following up some of the references, for my own research interests.
The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers. Historical Women Composers and the Transience of Female Musical Fame (from Part I – Themes in Studying Women Composers)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 May 2024
By
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 