Music by Women in ARMA

ARMA currently includes many works by women to use in music history and music theory courses, and we offer the following list for easy access:

• Comtessa di Dia: A chantar
• Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum
• Maddalena Casulana: Ahi possanza d'amor
• Maddalena Casulana: Morir non può il mio cuore
• Francesca Caccini: Lasciatemi qui solo
• Barbara Strozzi: Begli occhio
• Barbara Strozzi: Lagrime mie
• Barbara Strozzi: Tradimento!
• Isabella Leonarda: Twelve Sonatas, op. 16, Sonata Prima
• Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen: Violin Concerto no. 1
• Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre: Suite I in D minor
• Fanny Mendelssohn: Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano, op. 11
• Fanny Mendelssohn: Songs for Pianoforte, no. 1
• Clara Wieck Schumann: Liebst du um Schönheit
• Clara Wieck Schumann: Brahms: Menuetto I/II, from Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11, arranged for piano by Clara Schumann
• Clara Wieck Schumann: Robert Schumann: Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden, Op. 24, No. 5, arranged for piano by Clara Schumann
• Clara Kathleen Rogers: Reverie for Violoncello and Piano
• Ruth Crawford: String Quartet 1931, movement 1
• Ruth Crawford: String Quartet 1931, movement 3
• Ruth Crawford: String Quartet 1931, movement 4

In addition to the survey on Women in Western Art Music by Kendra Preston Leonard, you can find a number of articles and commentaries by women about these works and other topics. Use ARMA's search bar to find contributions by Jennifer Bain, Danielle Bastone Barrettara, Sophie Benn, Alice V. Clark, Karen Cook, Alison DeSimone, Kimary Fick, Linda Shaver Gleason, Dawn Grapes, Emily Hagen, Kimberly Hieb, Cindy L. Kim, Emily Laurence, Kendra Preston Leonard, Elizabeth Ann Lindau, Lucia Marchi, Fiona McAlpine, Nancy November, Morgan Rich, Stephanie P. Schlagel, Jacquelyn Sholes, Kim Teal, Jennifer Thomas, Melanie Zeck, and others.

Click here to use the A-R Online Music Anthology

More contributors are welcome! Contact James Zychowicz, if you would like to send a proposal.