Her Story - The Piano Collection. A Collection celebrating 29 Female Composers

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.

ISBN: 0571542379
Publisher: Faber Music
Arrangement format: Piano Solo
Instruments: Piano, Clarinet, Viola, Cello
Genre: Classical
Difficulty: Intermediate
Grades: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Pages: 120
Language: English

Contents

1. Villanelle (Marguerite Balutet)
2. Grazioso from Sonata No. 2 (Elisabetta de Gambarini)
3. Étude in C, Op. 50, No. 1 (Louise Farrenc)
4. The Banjo Op. 74 No. 4 (Nannie Louise Wright)
5. Berceuse Op. 2 (Dora Pejacevic)
6. Menuet from Suite in G minor (Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre)
7. Étude in D minor, Op. 50, No. 11 (Louise Farrenc)
8. Invention (Ethel Smyth)
9. Surgite, Surgite (Barbara Strozzi)
10. The Wood Nymphs Harp (Florence P Rea)
11. Levee Dance (Florence Price)
12. Columbine (Amy Beach)
13. The Spinning Top (Elena Gnesina)
14. O Virtuo Sapientiae (Margarida Gonçalves/ Hildegard von Bingen)
15. Now Think. (Emily Pedersen/Hildegard von Bingen)
16. Aubade (Cécile Chaminade)
17. Waltz Caprice Op. 2 No. 2 (Clara Schumann)
18. Valse (Maria Szymanowska)
19. Juninat (June Night) (Inga Lærum Liebich)
20. Andante cantabile from Sonata No.2 (Maria Hester Park)
21. Mélodie Op. 4 No. 2 (Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel)
22. Tempo di Minuetto from Sonata in A major (Marianna Martines)
23. Heloisa (Valsa de salão) (Francisca Gonzaga)
24. Lied Op. 35 [37], No. 1 (Josephine Lang)
25. Intermezzo (Op. 3 No. 3) (Paula Szalit)
26. Sospiro (Tango) (Francisca Gonzaga)
27. Prélude (Ce que lon entendit dans la nuit de Noël) (Augusta Holmès)
28. Pastorale (Germaine Tailleferre)
29. Waltz No. 9 (Marie Jaëll)
30. Divertimento (Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel)