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Female Composers from Down Under: flute works, from 1900 – 1956

by Laura Chislett The Concertino by Cécile Chaminade (France 1857 – 1944) must surely rank as the most widely performed flute piece by a female composer. It was the 1902 Paris Conservatoire annual test piece. Chaminade was not the only female French composer of that era: in fact you could say that there was a cluster of French female…

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Armando Guevara Ochoa, Neo-Indigenismo musical Peruano en la flauta (II)

Por Manuel Carranza Cueto Al hablar sobre el Indigenismo en la música peruana nos podemos referir prácticamente al mismo movimiento cultural que se dió en muchos países del mundo desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta mediados del siglo XX aproximadamente: El Nacionalismo musical.   En los múltiples libros que hablan sobre la historia de la música encontramos grandes coincidencias en…

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Elsa Jaqueline Barraine: Ritratto di una compositrice della Résistence francese

di Vilma Campitelli ELSA JAQUELINE BARRAINE (1910-1999) – compositrice, umanista, la donna delle giuste cause e dei combattimenti. Non desiderava altro che equità e libertà per tutti dimostrando che questa scelta, anche se aveva vincoli e rinunce, era possibile. Elsa ci offre una meditazione sulla vita preferendo agli onori effimeri, una vita dedicata, limpida e realizzata….

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