Unsung heroines: contributions of selected early twentieth-century women to American piano pedagogy

American Music Teacher, Dec, 2002 by Debra Brubaker Burns, Anita Jackson, Connie Arrau Sturm

The music on the CD will include work from the eighteenth century to the present, from composers such as Jane Savage, Clara Schumann, Mary Lou Williams, Florence Price and Tania Leon.

"We are providing this CD to studio teachers who are looking for new music to include in their teaching repertoire," says JoAnn McKinney, a senior music history major at McDaniel College. "We know that upon hearing these pieces, teachers will want to explore further the music that Hildegard publishes, and will find this untouched resource useful for students..

The CD, which will come with a catalogue of the scores recorded on the disc, will be available free of charge in January 2003 by contacting Armstrong, Music Department, McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, MD 21157; (410) 857-2535; rarmstro@mcdaniel.edu.

NOTES

(1.) Burgan, Mary. "Heroines at the Piano: Women and Music in Nineteenth-Century Fiction," Victorian Studies, Great Britain, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Fall 1986), pp. 51-76.

(2.) Berg, Barbara. The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism: The Women and the City, 1800-1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. x.

(3.) Ibid., p. 99.

(4.) Tick, Judith. "Passed Away is the Piano Girl: Changes in American Musical Life, 1870-1900," Women Making Music--The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950, eds. Jane Bowers and Judith Tick (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986), pp. 326-327.

(5.) Fay, Amy. Music Study in Germany (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1880; reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1965).

(6.) Fay. "The Woman Music Teacher in a Large City," The Etude, Vol. 20, No. 1 (January 1902), p. 14.

(7.) Brower, Harriette M. "Woman's Opportunity in Music: A Symposium to Which Some Well-Known `Etude' Writers, All of Whom are Practical and Experienced Teachers, Have Contributed," The Etude, Vol. 27, No. 7 (July 1909), p. 440.

(8.) Winn, Edith Lynwood. "The Woman Musician," The Etude, Vol. 18, No. 9 (Sept. 1900), p. 335.

(9.) Stoddard, Hope. "Mothers of Great Musicians," The Etude, Vol. 47, No. 11 (Nov. 1929), pp. 807-808 and Carl Engel. "What Great Music Owes to Woman, The Etude, Vol. 47, No. 11 (Nov. 1929), pp. 797-798.

(10.) Brower. "Woman's Opportunity in Music," p. 440.

(11.) Clarke, Frances E. "Music as a Vocation for Women," The Etude, Vol. 36, No. 11 (Nov. 1918), p. 696.

(12.) Teresa Carreno, though born in Venezuela, is listed among American pianists because of her long-time residence in the United States.

(13.) Loesser, Arthur. Men, Women, and Pianos: A Social History (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954), p. 539.

(14.) Clarke. "Music as a Vocation for Women," p. 696.

(15.) Smith, Fanny Morris. "Women as Tuners," The Etude, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 1900), p. 26.

(16.) Ochesner, A. J. "The Story of America's Largest Musical Organization, The National Federation of Music Clubs," The Etude, Vol. 36, No. 11 (Nov. 1918), pp. 701-702.

(17.) Smith. "The Work Of Our Women's Musical Clubs," The Etude, Vol. 27, No. 7 (July 1909), p. 490.

(18.) Blair, Karen J. The Clubwoman as Feminist, 1868-1914 (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1980), pp. 132-136.