HerStory: The Piano Collection -

 

A Progressive Collection Celebrating 29 Female Composers

Written, compiled, and edited by Karen Marshall

Piano Book

 

【Description】

HerStory: The Piano Collection presents invaluable repertoire by remarkable female composers across the ages. This important collection is progressively graded, suitable for intermediate to advanced level players (approximately Grade 4 to Grade 8) and also features a piano duet and an ensemble piece for piano, clarinet, viola, and cello.

 

Written and compiled by award-winning author and piano pedagogue Karen Marshall, each piece is accompanied by a fascinating snapshot of the 29 composers, providing invaluable insights into how they lived and composed, alongside quotes from them or about them. In addition there are suggestions of other pieces to try, personal observations from Karen Marshall and pedagogical activities and ideas. **Finalist in the Outstanding Music Education Resource Category for the 2023 Music & Drama Education Awards**

 

"This vibrant collection of wonderful music from literally every musical period promises to enrich the musical lives of everyone. Female composers have suffered shocking neglect over the centuries, but society is now beginning to make amends. Karen Marshall's extraordinary anthology brings neglected jewels out of obscurity and into the limelight, where they will be loved and cherished."

Kathryn Page, pianist, adjudicator, teacher and co-founder of Chetham's International Piano Summer School

 

【Content】

Andante cantabile from Sonata No.2 (Maria Hester Park)

Aubade (Cécile Chaminade)

Berceuse Op. 2 (Dora Pejačević)

Columbine (Amy Beach)

Divertimento (Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel)

Grazioso from Sonata No. 2 (Elisabetta de Gambarini)

Heloisa (Valsa de salão) (Francisca Gonzaga)

Intermezzo (Op. 3 No. 3) (Paula Szalit)

Invention (Ethel Smyth)

Juninat (June Night) (Inga Lærum Liebich)

Levee Dance (Florence Price)

Lied Op. 35 [37], No. 1 (Josephine Lang)

Menuet from Suite in G minor (Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre)

Mélodie Op. 4 No. 2 (Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel)

Now Think. (Emily Pedersen/Hildegard von Bingen)

O Virtuo Sapientiae (Margarida Gonçalves/ Hildegard von Bingen)

Pastorale (Germaine Tailleferre)

Prélude (Ce que l’on entendit dans la nuit de Noël) (Augusta Holmès)

Sospiro (Tango) (Francisca Gonzaga)

Surgite, Surgite (Barbara Strozzi)

Tempo di Minuetto from Sonata in A major (Marianna Martines)

The Banjo Op. 74 No. 4 (Nannie Louise Wright)

The Spinning Top (Elena Gnesina)

The Wood Nymph’s Harp (Florence P Rea)

Valse (Maria Szymanowska)

Villanelle (Marguerite Balutet)

Waltz Caprice Op. 2 No. 2 (Clara Schumann)

Waltz No. 9 (Marie Jaëll)

Étude in C, Op. 50, No. 1 (Louise Farrenc)

Étude in D minor, Op. 50, No. 11 (Louise Farrenc)

 

Composed by: Karen Marshall

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Instrument: Piano

Format: Book

Pages:112  22.8x30.5cm

ISBN 10:0-571-54237-9

ISBN 13:978-0-571-54237-6

UPC:9780571542376

 

 

HerStory: 鋼琴曲珍藏 - 女性作曲家傑出作品集 (HerStory: The Piano Collection - A Collection of Outstanding Works by Female Composers)

作者/編輯：凱倫・馬歇爾 (Karen Marshall)

 

 

本樂譜集「HerStory: 鋼琴曲珍藏」收錄了橫跨各個時代的傑出女性作曲家們的珍貴作品。適合程度為中級到高級的鋼琴演奏者 (約英國皇家音樂學院檢定四級到八級)，內容循序漸進，並包含一首鋼琴二重奏和一首鋼琴、豎笛、中提琴和大提琴的合奏曲。

 

由屢獲殊榮的作者暨鋼琴教育家凱倫・馬歇爾所編撰，每首曲子皆附有 29 位作曲家迷人的小故事，讓您深入了解她們的生活和創作歷程，並包含作曲家們的語錄或他人對她們的評價。此外，書中也提供了其他值得嘗試的曲子推薦、馬歇爾本人的心得觀察，以及教學活動和想法。荣获 2023 年音乐戏剧教育奖最佳音乐教育资源类提名

 

這個充滿活力的曲集收錄了來自幾乎每個音樂時期的精彩作品，勢必能豐富每個人的音樂生活。女性作曲家幾個世紀以來一直被嚴重忽视，但現在社會正開始改正這個錯誤。凱倫・馬歇爾這位傑出的編輯將被遗忘的珍寶帶回人們的視野，讓它們感受到喜愛和珍視。

 

- 凱瑟琳・佩吉 (Kathryn Page)

 

鋼琴家、評審員、教師

Chetham's 國際鋼琴夏令營聯合創辦人