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Louise Talma - A Life in Composition (Paperback)
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Louise Talma - A Life in Composition (Paperback)
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American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female
winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the
first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962),
the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition
(1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book
analyses Talma's works in the context of her life, focusing on the
effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult
life: her conversion to Catholicism as an adult, under the guidance
of Nadia Boulanger, and her adoption of serial compositional
techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analysis,
feminist and queer musicology, and women's autobiographical theory
to examine Talma's body of works, comprising some eighty pieces,
this is the first full-length study of this pioneering composer.
Exploring Talma's compositional language, text-setting practices,
and the incorporation of autobiographical elements into her works
using her own letters, sketches, and scores, as well as a number of
other relevant documents, this book positions Talma's contributions
to serial and atonal music in the United States, considers her role
as a woman composer during the twentieth century, and evaluates the
legacy of her works and career in American music.
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