Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960–2000
Authors: Laurel Parsons with Brenda Ravenscroft, eds. Publication details: Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers. Vol. 3 : Concert Music, 1960–2000, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016 Weblink: global.oup.com Description: Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers […]
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900-1960
Authors: Laurel Parsons with Brenda Ravenscroft, eds. Publication details: Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers. Vol. 1: Concert Music, 1900–1960, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022 Weblink: global.oup.com Description: Through musical analysis of compositions written in the first half of the twentieth century, Analytic Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900-1960 celebrates the […]
This Imaginary Halfe-Nothing
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “‘This Imaginary Halfe-Nothing’: Temporality in Elisabeth Lutyens’s Essence of Our Happinesses.” In Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers. Vol. 3: Concert Music, 1960–2000 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). 196–220. Weblink: academic.oup.com Description: In Essence of Our Happinesses (1968), a three-movement work for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, Elisabeth Lutyens explores the […]
Dyslexia and Post-Secondary Aural Skills Instruction
Authors: Laurel Parsons Publication details: Aural Skills and the Music Major with Dyslexia.” Music Theory Online 21.4, December 2015. Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract: Traditional post-secondary aural-skills curricula can create extreme difficulties for music majors with dyslexia. This article places the author’s experience teaching these students into the context of contemporary scientific and educational research on dyslexia, including […]
Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music.” Arctic Discourses. Edited by Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, and Henning Howlid Wærp. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. Weblink: www.cambridgescholars.com Description: Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the […]
Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.” British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960. Edited by Matthew Riley. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. Weblink: www.taylorfrancis.com Abstract: The English imagination takes the form of a ring or circle. It is endless because it has no beginning and no end; it moves backwards as […]
Time Management with ‘Twelve-Tone Lizzie’: Dramatic Functions of Meter in a Scene from Elisabeth Lutyens’s Music Drama The Numbered
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: Time Management with “Twelve-Tone Lizzie”: Dramatic Functions of Meter in a Scene from Elisabeth Lutyens’s Music Drama “The Numbered”, Theory and Practice 30 (2005): 153–83. Music Theory Society of New York State Weblink: www.jstor.org
Music and Text in Elisabeth Lutyens’s Wittgenstein Motet
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Music and Text in Elisabeth Lutyens’s Wittgenstein Motet.” Canadian University Music Review 20, no. 1 (1999): 71–100. Weblink: www.proquest.com Summary: “I know from experience that sanity … lies in applying the conscious mind objectively and allowing the ‘unconscious’ – ‘inspiration’, ‘soul’, ‘spirit’ … to look, as an adult, after itself.” This remark, […]