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Barbara Pentland, Toccata: Music by Barbara Pentland. Barbara Pritchard, piano. Centrediscs CMCCD 18312, 2012.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2013

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References

1 Danielson, Janet Henshaw, “Canadian Women Composers in Modernist Terrain: Violet Archer, Jean Coulthard and Barbara Pentland,” Circuit, musiques contemporaines 19/1 (2009): 5770CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 This aspect of the modernist legacy was most famously observed by McClary, Susan in “Terminal Prestige: The Case of Avant-Garde Music Composition,” Cultural Critique 12 (Spring 1989): 5781CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Nor is this the only recording of Pentland's piano music available. Centrediscs released an LP entitled Pentland Piano Works, performed by Robert Rogers (Centrediscs CMC-1985/6-ACM 25, 1985); and none other than Glenn Gould can be heard performing the Pentland work Ombres on Glenn Gould Plays Contemporary Music (Sony WSK 52677, 1992).

4 Eastman, Sheila and McGee, Timothy J., Barbara Pentland (University of Toronto Press, 1983), 56Google Scholar.

5 In Eitan Cornfield, director, “Barbara Pentland,” Canadian Composers Portrait Series, Toronto, Centrediscs, 2003; cited in Danielson, “Canadian Women Composers in Modernist Terrain,” 66.