So You Want to Sing Music by Women

Matthew Hoch is associate professor of voice at Auburn University. He is the author of A Dictionary for the Modern Singer,coauthor of Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer, and volume editor of So You Want to Sing Sacred Music and So You Want to Sing CCM. Hoch is the 2016 winner of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship, awarded jointly by the Voice Foundation and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). He also is affiliate faculty in women’s studies at Auburn University, where he developed the institution’s first-ever Women in Music course.Linda Lister is associate professor of voice and director of opera at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of So You Want to Sing Light Opera and coauthor of Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer. As a soprano soloist, she appears on the albums The American Soloist, Midnight Tolls, and Moments of Arrival. Also a composer, she sings her own art songs on the Albany Records release Pleas to Famous Fairies.

• Chapter 1 – Music by Women: A Brief History Chapter 2 – Women Composers: Historical and Contemporary Challenges Chapter 3 – Art Songs by Women Chapter 4 – Operas by Women Chapter 5 – Choral Music by WomenChapter 6 – Experimental Music and Extended Techniques Chapter 7 – Music Theater by Women, Erin GuinupChapter 8 – CCM by Women, Amanda Wansa MorganChapter 9 – Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoyChapter 10 – Vocal Health for Singers, Wendy LeBorgneChapter 11 – Using Audio Enhancement Technology, Matthew EdwardsChapter 12 – Advocacy for Women Composers, Erin GuinupChapter 13 – Music by Women: The Future

This book will surprise the reader with some of the stories told and it will certainly be of value for academic and large public libraries, and for anyone interested in women's studies, in academic or private voice study, or performance of challenging, inspiring repertoire in a multitude of genres.