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Contents |
Themes in life -- Prodigy -- Wars -- Conducting -- Difference -- Themes in music -- Anti-modernism -- Englishness -- Difference. |
Abstract |
Halstead's review of Gipps' life and career establishes her importance both as a pioneering woman composer and conductor whose worked challenged the attitudes of her time, and as a composer whose musical philosophy was often at odds with mainstream thinking. |
Bibliography note | Includes list of R. Gipp's works (pages 163-179), bibliographical references (pages 181-188), and index. |
LCCN | 2005012384 |
ISBN | 0754601781 (alk. paper) |