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Well written and consistently provocative, Gender and the Musical Canon is a comprehensive and balanced study of women composers and their music. A classic in gender studies in music, it is nonetheless accessible for musically educated lay reader.

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"I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be so interested in a scholarly book of this type. As a woman composer and a teacher of music, I felt so connected to the ideas in it and, more importantly, utterly empowered by them. I have recommended it to everyone I know!" -- Joan Tower
"Important and timely. . . . Valuable to anyone from the high school student to the most accomplished academic." -- Renée Cox Lorraine, MLA Notes
"[Citron] succeeds admirably in laying out the fundamental problems and the solutions thus far available. . . . [Her] book is well written and continuously provocative." -- Lydia Goehr, Music and Letters

Gender and the Musical Canon

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    A Paperback / softback by Marcia J. Citron

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 07/11/2000
      ISBN13: 9780252069161, 978-0252069161
      ISBN10: 0252069161
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Well written and consistently provocative, Gender and the Musical Canon is a comprehensive and balanced study of women composers and their music. A classic in gender studies in music, it is nonetheless accessible for musically educated lay reader.

      Trade Review
      "I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be so interested in a scholarly book of this type. As a woman composer and a teacher of music, I felt so connected to the ideas in it and, more importantly, utterly empowered by them. I have recommended it to everyone I know!" -- Joan Tower
      "Important and timely. . . . Valuable to anyone from the high school student to the most accomplished academic." -- Renée Cox Lorraine, MLA Notes
      "[Citron] succeeds admirably in laying out the fundamental problems and the solutions thus far available. . . . [Her] book is well written and continuously provocative." -- Lydia Goehr, Music and Letters

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