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Women Composers and the Music Curriculum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Stephanie Cant
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Despite the long-established move towards the inclusion of composition as an element of music in schools, many teachers continue to be wary of it. Lack of confidence amongst women music teachers in their own abilities as composers may be a key to this situation. It is suggested that this arises as a result of rarely seeing music by women composers played and studied with the same attention afforded to music written by men. The popular mythology that only men have the ability to compose is challenged, and an argument is made for the inclusion of music by women composers (past and present) in the curriculum of schools and colleges. Practical suggestions are made as to how this can be achieved despite the current lack of resources.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 5 - 13
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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