The Publications page has four sections:
I. The late 1700s–early 1800s.
II. The early 1700s (Rameau’s theoretical wri-tings, Scalfi Marcello’s cantatas).
English translations of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Harmonic Generation and Dissertation on the Different Methods of Accompaniment . . . with the Plan for a New Method (both 1974, out-of-print) are available (free) in .pdf upon request to hayesd[at]colorado[dot]edu.
III. The 20th and 21st centuries (Ruth Shaw Wylie, Gabriela Lena Frank, Peter Sculthorpe, Peggy Glanville-Hicks).
IV. Reviews of books, recordings, and concerts.
Contact Deborah Hayes
Deborah Hayes is a professor emerita and former associate dean for graduate studies in the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her publications include studies of music and musicians of the eighteenth century and more recent times, including historical women composers.
The Classic Women pages and linked documents provide an overview of European and American women whose music dates from ca. 1750 to the
early 1800s, the Classic era.
Lists of composers and summaries of information are on the pages headed Data and Repertoire.
Nine pages are devoted to these ten composers who were active in
in the late 1700s and early 1800s:
— Maria Barthélemon (Polly Young)
— Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis
— Françoise Elizabeth Desfossez
think - Clockwise from upper left: Maria Theresa Agnesi, Wilhelmina von Bayreuth,
Anna Amalia Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen, Francesca LeBrun, Marianne Martines, Maria Antonia Walpurgis, Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. www.wophil.org
