Abstract:
Twentieth Century Flute Music by Women Composers is meant to be a small representation of the many musical compositions written by women in the past one hundred years. The outcome of the project is a recital recorded on compact disc along with detailed program notes and a full bibliography. The composers and pieces chosen were selected to provide a variety of contrasting music that has influences from all musical time periods and genres. Although the music is all written for flute, the instrumentation varies from flute alone to flute and harpsichord to a full flute choir. Along with the focus of performing, there is a focus on displaying and discussing women composers and works that are not well known, even to the musically literate. This is done in hopes of exposing others to these composers and influencing other musicians to find and perform more musical selections by these women.
