Emma Lou Diemer - A Bio-Bibliography

Emma Lou Diemer--a composer who successfully combines a classicist's interest in form with a fresh, contemporary, harmonic vocabulary--has produced a diverse, sophisticated, and largely unheralded opus, including 350 works composed for orchestra, symphonic band, chamber ensemble, keyboard, chorus, voices, and solo and electronic instruments. This complete guide to her extensive work examines her influences and her unique musical style, reveals her philosophy of composing, and offers the reader access to detailed information about her work. Though her organ psalm settings and hymn preludes are considered standard repertoire, as are a number of her choral compositions, Diemer has not received her due attention or acclaim-an oversight fully corrected by this valuable addition to music scholarship.

Beginning with a brief biography that outlines Diemer's life and art, this thoroughly cross-referenced book goes on to enumerate the composer's many works and performances in a section divided by style and instrument. A complete discography and bibliography round out the volume, along with alphabetical, chronological, and genre-specific indexes.

List of contents

Preface
Biography
Works and Performances
Discography
Bibliography
Appendix A: Alphabetical Lists of Compositions
Appendix B: Chronological List of Compositions
Appendix C: Peer Reflections
Index

About the author

ELLEN GROLMAN SCHLEGEL is a Professor of Music at Frostburg State University in Maryland. She is a founding member of the Chamberlain Trio and principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of the Alleghenies, and has published extensively on the subject of women composers, most recently as a contributor to the Encyclopedia of American Women Musicians Since 1900.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen G. Grolman, Ellen Grolman Schlegel
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2001
• EAN: 9780313318146
• ISBN: 978-0-313-31814-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 652 g
• Series: Bio-Bibliographies in Music
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, 20th Century, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Bibliographies, catalogues, Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts