‘The Sleeping Music. Fifteen composers in history ‘by the author Patricia García Sánchez, is a book dedicated to women in the composition of Western music that seeks funding through a crowfunding campaign
Through The Sleeping Music. Fifteen female composers in history, anyone can enter our dream to enjoy their music. This book is a very necessary outreach work for teachers, specialists or lovers of music and art in general. The Sleeping Music. Fifteen female composers in history is a work by the author Patricia García Sánchez, writer, musicologist, teacher and specialist in music and genre. To date, it already has several books published narrative and children’s theater and Didactics of Music.
In recent times, around nine thousand female composers have seen the light, seeing their music gradually awaken after a long sleep.
‘Their dawn is being slow but sure, because they always existed, because they were always there. Sleeping Music yawns, stretches, and smiles as it reenacts its deepest dreams, adventures, and misadventures. Some he remembers perfectly, others come to him like gusts of wind and sometimes he has to concentrate hard to remember them and do arduous and complicated research. ‘
The illustrator Marta Dorado is the author of the cover and the interior portraits. In the following link you can see more details of the project, as well as help make it come true. There are different levels of funding: https://www.verkami.com/projects/28367-la-musica-durmiente
These are the female composers that appear in the book:
- Hildegarda of Bingen
- Weather in Francesca Caccini
- Barbara Strozzi
- Marianna Martinez
- Nanerl Mozart
- Clara Schumann
- Fanny Mendelsohnn
- Elfrida Andrée
- Ethel Smyth
- Celia torra
- Ruth Crawford Seeger
- Nadia Boulanger
- Lili baker
- Rosita Garcia Ascot
- Sonia Megías
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