The Internet For Women In Music (and those curious about them)

Even though I am starting from ground zero, there may be some information and addresses in this flyer that could be of interest to major computer mavens.

For Starters:

Get a computer. Get a modem. Get the software programs Eudora, in order to send email effortlessly, and Netscape, to browse sites on the Internet and do research. You'll also want NewsWatcher, if you have a Mac, to work with newslists. Next, find a provider of Internet services such as TunaNet in NYC or Interport (voice: 212-989-1128) or America Online. Arrange for unlimited access per month to surf the web (approximate cost is $20/month). You might want to get a book or have a little help from a knowledgeable person .

Depending on what computer you have, try The Internet Starter Kit for the Macintosh, 4th Edition (Adam Engst, Hayden Books) or The Internet Starter Kit for Windows, 2nd Edition (Adam Engst, Hayden Books) or The Internet Starter Kit for Windows 95 (Adam Engst, Corwin S. Low, Hayden Books). Then collect email addresses, send email, join and participate in news lists, and visit web sites.

Email addresses are like phone numbers. They have to be perfect to work. How do you get one? Call or write your friends and ask. Notice that an email address, for example Monique: buzzarte@dorsai.org begins with a few letters chosen by Monique, often including parts of the person's name, then there is an @ sign which means "at", then there is a provider of Internet services (in this case it is dorsai), and then either edu (for a school), org (for a non-profit organization), com (a commercial company), gov (government) etc. A web site (aka: page or home page) address starts with "http://" as in http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/index.html#data When Netscape opens, there is a place to type in a web address. Do that and hit return and in a few seconds the web site will appear on your monitor. That's all there is to it. Just do it...

Everytime you go to a place on the Internet that you like or think you might want to return to, save the URL (the address where you are at the time) in your bookmarks file. Web sites are always adding more features. Bells & whistles are in the works at every site listed.

Also, things change quickly. So if some of the addresses I have listed are now incorrect, try going to one of the larger sites and seeing if they are linked to the person, place or thing that you seek. Then start sending email until you find someone who knows the answer. Most people on the net are very helpful.

Some Web Sites

Whenever you are on a web page, click on everything that is a different color and on all the buttons that show categories of materials and see if it takes you somewhere else. You can always go back to the page you were on by clicking the BACK button. Some pages have sounds or parts of scores on them that have to be read by special programs. Usually the page itself will tell you what you need to see/hear special things. Music and pictures take seconds or minutes to appear. So be patient, if you want to do anything on a page except read text.

  1. To see the catalogue of compositions written by New York Women Composers, Inc.'s members (large and currently incomplete) go to:

    http://metalab.unc.edu/nywc/

    This site also includes some biographical information, sources for obtaining the scores listed, and information on joining the organization and having your scores listed here. For those with email-only provider accounts, to join, email doverb@tiac.net (Eva Wiener).

  2. To see the web site of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM), go to:

    http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/home.html

    This is a terrific resource and includes many areas of interest, including Syllabus at:

    http://MUSIC.ACU.EDU/WWW/IAWM/bibliographies.html

    Here you can find:

    Women-in-Music Bibliographies
    A Bibliography compiled by Professor Ursula Rempel, extracted from her HISTORY OF WOMEN IN MUSIC Syllabus. Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music, Western Michigan University. Women Composers Born Before 1750, Sources compiled by Sarah Whitworth. Books on Women in Music, a preliminary bibliography compiled by the Center for Women in Music at New York University. Clara Schumann Bibliography, a select bibliography compiled by the Clara Schumann Society (David Kenneth Smith, founder and editor). Popular Music Bibliography on women in music, compiled by She's Got the Beat.
    Women-in-Music Composition Lists
    works for brass by women composers, a searchable database compiled by Monique Buzzarte. works for viola by women composers, compiled by David Sills. Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca.1890-1930, a searchable bibliographic list of some 2700 songs by women compiled by Christopher Reynolds, Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog, compiled by Heidi M. Boenke, Piano Music by Black Women Composers: A Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works (Walker-Hill) 1992 , G. Schirmer/AMP and affiliates, list of orchestral works by women composers published by Schirmer
    Women-in-Music Discographies
    Discographies, recent recordings of music by women composers compiled by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner and published in the IAWM Journal. Women's Choral Music: Women's Choruses and Women's Choral Music, compiled by Monica Hubbard (not restricted to women composers, but includes many).
    Publishers
    Book Publishers, Music Publishers, Recording Publishers Pointers to online materials about historical women composers Amy Beach, journal book review, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, (Mrs. H.H.A. Beach), page by Women's Voices; Hildegard of Bingen, Bingen Page by Bison Tales Publishers; Hildegard of Bingen Page by Women's Voices; Dame Ethel Smyth Page by Women's Voices;

    The FESTIVALS page in WWW archive is found at:

    http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/festivals.html

    In order to have your festival listed here, send mail to sglickma@haverford.edu (Sylvia Glickman) (More about her later.) To reach the editor of the IAWM Journal send mail to Eve R. Meyer at evermeyer@sprynet.com The IAWM site page includes links to the ICMA, MCF, MPA, SEAMUS, SCI, SMT and some international contemporary music centers, etc., as well as copyright and licensing resources. The American Music Center web site is also linked to the IAWM site. (That means that when you are in the IAWM site, there will be an AMC button or the name of AMC will be given in a blue color and you can click on the button or click on the blue name itself and it will take you to the AMC site.) Other composer resources are linked in the IAWM pages at:

    http://MUSIC.ACU.EDU/WWW/IAWM/resources.html

    Online IAWM E-list Directory (how to find your friends/colleagues):

    http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/directory.html

    For more on this, see section 31 of this paper.

  3. In order to have your own web page, either hire someone to do it (unless you know HTML, a computer language) or ask The American Music Center to help ( email: center@amc.net or dwcm@ix.netcom.com or write them at 30 West 26th Street Suite 1001 New York, NY 10010-2011 or call them at (212) 366-5260) Their WWW Site is http://www.amc.net/amc/ and it even has pictures. They will do it as inexpensively as possible. Here is their announcement regarding how to arrange it.

    The American Music Center is happy to announce a new service for our membership. For the first time, individual members will be able to have their own personal suite of World Wide Web Pages at the American Music Center site on the Internet. The Center's pages are already receiving thousands of hits each day. This gives both composer and performer members an ideal opportunity to make themselves and their music known to the performers, presenters, and publishers from all over the world who visit us electronically.

    For a one-time fee of $300 (and your continuing membership), we will program, link, and provide the storage space for a personal suite of pages on the World Wide Web. The information we will publish for you can include descriptions of your works (including lists of your CDs and scores and where to obtain them), your education and background, personal artistic statements, upcoming performances and reviews. If you already have scores in the Center's collection, a listing of these will be available from your page with information about how members can check them out.

    We'll provide guidelines for formatting your page, with the idea of keeping the information content high and consistent with our other pages. We highly recommend that you examine the Individual Artists Pages already established for help in creating your pages. These pages will form a database of information about our performers and composers for the whole world to access, at a site which has already had great success. Individual Artist Pages will not be personal home pages, but rather a professional opportunity to promote your music through the thousands of contacts which the American Music Center attracts daily to its WWW site.

    If you've already set up a personal home page and you're a member, we will link you to our Individual Artists Pages without charge. The $300 setup fee is for initial programming and configuration of your suite of pages. Changes to your WWW pages, including updates and requests for customized pages, will be billed at a little more than $50 an hour (with a $15 minimum, when last discussed). Where else can you get such a deal?

  4. A fabulous site was created by Sarah Whitworth. It is the Early Music Women Composers Page at http://pages.nyu.edu/~whitwrth/ If you want to email her, send to:

    whitwrth@is2.nyu.edu

    She has created many links to sites of interest to women composers, artists, scholars, etc. She also suggests the Ladyslipper Catalogue at http://www.jcmax.com/vendors/ladyslipper/

  5. A very active writer, researcher and creator of women's dicsographies is Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner. She was at The University of Illinois, but just moved to the Music Technology Center at the School of Music, Florida International University, in Miami. Send her email at:

    hinklee@fiu.edu

    Her web page has links to many music organizations, sound/video files of some of her compositions, and includes a web site about digital notation and online transmission of notation information on the WWW, among other things too good to miss. Her site is at:

    http://www.fiu.edu/~hinklee/

    She says it is easy to post soundfiles on the web, "-- just save your files as AIFF or WAV files, put them on your server and other folks can download them." If everybody did that, we'd all be able to hear this music!

  6. The Clara Schumann web site is at:

    http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~daksmith/index.html It includes a short biography, startup bibliographies, a works list, and links to other composers. You can also become a member of the Clara Schumann Society! Look for the membership page for details. If you don't have access to a World Wide Web browser, and would like a table of contents by which to order email copies of some of the files, please send your email request, or any comments or suggestions you might have to daksmith@indiana.edu where you will reach David Kenneth Smith.

  7. The Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) can be reached at:

    http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/csw.html The CSW-Home Page contains information about the committee and its ongoing projects, including a Bibliography of Resources in Music and Women's Studies, SMT's Guidelines for Non-Sexist Language, and an Archive of Syllabi from Women and Music Courses. If you have any questions regarding the CSW-Home Page, or need technical assistance in accessing it, contact David Loberg Code (email: code@wmich.edu) at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.

    The "Journal of Music Theory" announced recently that it has revised and relocated its Web page to:

    http://www.yale.edu/jmt/

  8. Monica J. Hubbard mhubbard@cco.caltech.edu is a font of information regarding choirs. On her web site you will find links to ChoralNet (an international music resource for choral conductors) and a small discography of women's choral music as well as links to other web sites of interest to choral musicians. She also maintains a list of choral music publisher email addresses which she sends monthly to Choralist subscribers. (Information on how to subscribe to Choralist is found on the ChoralNet link). Visit Hubbard's web site at http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~musicpgm/mhubbard/glee.html For ChoralNet go to http://www.choralnet.org It can be accessed in English, German, French and Spanish, and is the most comprehensive international site available for all matters choral. For the discography of women's choruses http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~musicpgm/mhubbard/disco.html Go look. Hubbard also suggests that you may be interested in the ACDA Women's Chorus Repertoire Exchange, coordinated by Dr. Ricardo Soto RicSoto@aol.com. To receive an application for the exchange, send an email to Dr.Soto. Hubbard is Founding Director of the women's choral music program at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA where her women's chorus is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

  9. ASCAP has a web page. It is at:

    http://www.ascap.com/ascap.html It includes a searchable database of member works. and BMI is online:

    http://bmi.com/index2.html

    If you ever want to find out if some words you want to set to music are under copyright, this is one place to go. However, for more copyright data, try The Copyright Office homepage at:

    http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

    Here you'll find the complete text to all Copyright circulars and a gateway to search their automated file (COHM) which contains all registrations made since 1978. They'll be adding a FAQ in the near future. If you and/or your publisher registered, your work will be in this file. There can be a lag time; sometimes it takes up to a year to process material, but it's not normally that long. You may email specific copyright questions to copyinfo@loc.gov. You can call the Library of Congress Music Division at (202) 707-5507 or the Recorded Sound Section at (202) 707-7833. The copyright office information comes to us from Stephen Soderberg, Music Division, Library of Congress ssod@loc.gov.

  10. The 1996 volume 6 of Leonardo Music Journal has papers that are part of Leonardo's Women, Art & Technology project. That project is an ongoing one that aims to encourage women artists to document their work in Leonardo and in Leonardo Music Journal. Subscription information is available on their web site at http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/home.html. Visitors to the web site can click on the heading "Sound" if they are specifically interested in Leonardo Music Journal. To order a journal subscription or to order back issues, interested persons should contact the MIT Press via email at journals-orders@mit.edu or call 617-253-2889; fax 617-258-6779. Address:

    MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 I reached them through Patricia Bentson isast@sfsu.edu. Grace Sullivan is the Managing editor of Leonardo Music Journal and the Sound area of the web site.

  11. Here are two really good and useful resources for finding out what's happening and for getting your events listed/publicized in a way that apparently a lot of people refer to in NYC! URL http://www.metrobeat.com/ and http://www.metrobeat.com/nyc/

    To submit info for posting, go to http://www.metrobeat.com/nyc/mb/house/postbox.html, choose MAILBOX, fill out the form and hit SUBMIT EVENT or if all else fails, try HELP and they will help you. If you just want to see what they have posted for the coming week, you will probably want to choose Classical & New Music from their list of possibilities. This suggestion comes from Gregory Reeve gremusic@interport.net whose home page is http://www.users.interport.net/~gremusic/

    Gregory says his site is "THE WEB PAGE dedicated to covering and continuously updating nearly everything in 20th and 21st Century Art Music: Notation files, Sound files, Concert Schedules, New Music information and resources, Composer and Performer profiles, and links to all other New Music sites. We invite the adding of links to this site by all members of the new music community--from composers to publicists. No style of music will be rejected as long as it has been written for the sake of art and not solely for commerce."

  12. Harmonia Mundi France info.arles@harmoniamundi.com has a web site at the location:

    http://harmoniamundi.com

    The site features the complete catalog (arranged both by title and by composer), complete with a great deal of detailed information and hundreds of CD covers in JPEG format; biographies, discographies and tour information for harmonia mundi artists; listings of their most recent releases and award winners; and special features (under What's Hot). Harmonia Mundi USA info@hmusa.com is the US branch of Harmonia Mundi France.

  13. Tom Moore at the Music Listening Library, Princeton University can be reached at STMOORE@PRINCETON.EDU or stmoore@phoenix.Princeton.EDU The homepage there is:

    http://www.princeton.edu/~stmoore

    A large collection of links to composers' home pages can be found at:

    http://www.princeton.edu/~stmoore/musiclinks.html

    When you have a home page, send the address to him and he will add it to his list of links. The more places you are listed and linked, the easier it is for more people to learn about you and your work/music. He is also happy to lend CDs on inter-library loan. Contact your local library's ILL office (get the call number for the disc first and if it's not yet cataloged in the online cat, it can still circulate). To view their monthly new acquisition lists, point your WWW browser to

    http://www.princeton.edu/~mlislib/mlisacqlist.html

    This Internet could be useful. What do you think?

  14. Christopher Reynolds chreynolds@ucdavis.edu has created a feature on his home page, entitled "Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930." The information includes title, composer, poet, publisher, date and city of publication, and accompaniment for 2700 (it will be updated to 5000 entries Summer 1997) songs by women. Mr. Reynolds says:

    "Writing in Boston in 1900 or shortly before, Rupert Hughes observed that one music publisher had seen compositions by women grow from "only one-tenth of his manuscripts a few years ago" to "more than two thirds". To consult this bibliography:

    http://musdra.ucdavis.edu

    Click on "Music", again on "Music Department Faculty" and then on his name. He welcomes input from anyone who would like to help expand this list. car@charles.ucdavis.edu

  15. Here are some organizations and sites of interest: The Society of Composers, Inc. (sci@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu) at http://kahless.isca.uiowa.edu/~kcorey/sci/sci.html The American Composers Forum http://www.umn.edu/nlhome/m111/compfrm You can have them link their page to yours and you can link to theirs. A contact for the New York Meetings of the American Composers Forum is Brian W. Grundstrom who can be reached at BrianWilbur@compuserve.com For a list of current NPR email addresses, write to nprlist@npr.org. Their gopher address is gopher://gopher.npr.org. Their WWW address is http://www.npr.org/. They may also be found on America Online (keyword:NPR), says Linda Plaut lplaut@vt.edu. The Cappella Artemisia web page is:

    http://www.intr.net/~bleissa/lists/artemis.html

    The web page, http://www.vivacepress.com/wnqindex.htm is for WOMEN OF NOTE QUARTERLY

    The web address of the San Francisco Conservatory is http://www.sfcm.edu/

    Greenwich House Arts gharts@artswire.org in NYC is http://www.artswire.org/gharts/home.html.

    Hildegard Publishing Company's web page is http://www.hildegard.com. Talk to Sylvia Glickman (phone: 610-649-8649, FAX: 610-649-8677, email: sglickman@hildegard.com. Ms. Glickman is not only publishing our music (historical and current), she and Martha Furman Schleifer are co-editing for the Macmillan Publishing Company a 12-volume anthology entitled "Women Composers: Music Through the Ages" (volumes I: women born up to 1599 and II: the 17th C. are in print; the three 18th C. volumes will be out later this year, with 19th and 20th to follow.) Now that's work!

    There's a music bibliography on the Web called The American Music Resource, a gopher site since 1993 It is recently updated and appears at http://www.uncg.edu/~flmccart/amrhome.html AMR contains bibliographies, lists, Internet links and text-files covering all styles of American music, related issues, theory and technology. The collection is indexed into topics (style, genre: currently 52) and by subjects (mostly composers: currently 71--some of them women) for a grand total of well over 100 specific areas. Topics include Women in Music. The entire collection contains 850+ files and over 600 selected URLs. The "Selected Annotated Netography" provides further external links and offers research and Internet assistance. Use of the collection is efficient since it is text-only. (Keep this fact in mind when you create your own site. If you put photos or sound files on your site, depending on how you do it, things can slow down to the point where no one cares to wait for the beautiful material you are offering them.)

  16. Monique Buzzarte buzzarte@dorsai.org has compiled an excellent searchable database of brass compositions by women composers at:

    http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/index.html#data

    She is also an advocate for women musicians and is currently focusing on efforts to spotlight media attention on the Vienna Philharmonic's exclusion of women with her "Zap the VPO" web page http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/zapvpo.html and email list (to subscribe, send a message to maiser@raildelivery.com with:

    SUB zapvpo Your Name

    All of these mailing lists have very definite ways of joining. It's free but it requires a perfect "performance".

  17. A. M. Savage (asavage@bgnet.bgsu.edu) has a resource web page on women and rock'n'roll ("a resource page for academics, practitioners and enthusiasts who feel an investment in women's music") called Gyrating, Vibrating & Rocking all Night Long!: Women's Voices in Music. The URL (address) is http://www.bgsu.edu/~asavage/music.htm Although she did not create it, she recommends The Adventures of Cyborg Krys at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~alan/SF/fem/intro.html, "a page that creatively combines science fiction with feminist theory."

    For more rock information, try Rockrgrl rockrgrl@aol.com or on the web, go to http://www.indieweb.com/rockrgrl

  18. Studio XX in Montreal Quebec, is a Women's Digital Media Intervention Group committed to facilitating access to technology for women by: providing resources, workshops, and by producing, events, works, and conferences or panel discussions. They also link members of diverse communities (linguistic, cultural) through technology. Reach them by sending mail to Kathy Kennedy at studioxx@internauts.ca or kathyk@alcor.concordia.ca or go see their web site at http://www.internauts.ca/~studioxx

    For AES Women in Audio and New England Women in Audio, write carolbous@aol.com

    For a history of electronic musical instruments, look at http://www.ief.u-psud.fr/~thierry/history/history.html Even the theremin has a page at http://www.nashville.net/~theremin/

    For those of us who still play the piano, you can see the piano technician guild's piano page at http://www.prairienet.org/arts/ptg/homepage.html

    Or if you ever have a question about women and the movies, try the Library of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy has a Web site at http://www.oscars.org/academy/index.html. This idea comes from Roger Evans.

  19. One way to get the addresses for the Music Library Association, the Society for Music Theory, Pedagogy and Performance, and/or the Early Music List is to go to Jessica Lardin's WNNF@grove.iup.edu web page at Indiana University of PA. The address is:

    http://www.iup.edu/~wnnf/music.html

    Just enter her OTHER MUSIC LINKS, and then select the VOCALIST home page. There are lists of many of these associations with their respective addresses. There are simpler ways, but you need to know that we are all linked together in the most interesting ways!

    Connie Sunday has a great page at http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/1162/ with a huge number of links to sites with the topics: ORCHESTRA GUIDE, MUSIC PAGES,and FEMINIST PAGES, among other things such as vegetarianism and bicycling.

  20. The AMSLIST is an electronic forum for musicologists world-wide. It allows subscribers to exchange and discuss ideas on musical topics of mutual interest. It encourages list members to pool their knowledge and research by allowing rapid communication on an international level. Additionally, it provides a means of disseminating important AMS (and other related groups) information, news, announcements, etc. The AMSLIST is NOT officially affiliated with the American Musicological Society. The current list owner and administrator: Mark Brill. Please feel free to write mebrill@ucdavis.edu. TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE AMSLIST Send email to:

    listproc@ucdavis.edu

    with ONLY the following message (leave the Subject Line blank):

    SUBSCRIBE AMSLIST yourfirstname yourlastname

    Example:

    subscribe amslist Josquin W. Desprez.  
    
    To see the AMS site, try http://musdra.ucdavis.edu/documents/AMS/AMS.html where you will find WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists and musicians of all sorts, Musicologists' Email Adresses, Forthcoming Conferences, Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, Award and Fellowship Guidelines, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and so many connections to other sites you won't believe it. From this site I found a huge amount of texts (just waiting to be set to music) that are in public domain. There is a huge list of libraries' sites and musical news lists' addresses. It is an amazing place. A must see.

    There is a great article (on paper) in "Computing In Musicology: An International Directory of Applications" Volume 10, 1995-96 published by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford, CA called "Tools for Musical Scholarship on the World-Wide Web" by Robert Judd rjudd@sas.upenn.edu.

  21. Go look at some of the following: Women Online News (http://www.women-online.com) for articles "by and about prominent women online, regular features that focus on online content and some technical "how to" tips. An interactive forum may already be available. A short version of the newsletter is distributed on a mailing list to reach out to women who are not on the Web." Lesbian.org (http://www.lesbian.org) the most popular and well respected web site for lesbians online. WWWomen (http://www.wwwomen.com) is probably the largest search directory for women online. WWWomen was chosen by U.S. News and World Report as one of the best places for women on the Web.

  22. Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory http://www.echonyc.com/~women Included on this web site are the "Feminist Yellow Pages", providing links to sites related to women's issues broken down by category for easy browsing; or Contact The Maud Powell Society for Music and Education kshaffer@erols.com a nonprofit, educational and charitable organization that publishes a quarterly subscription magazine called, The Maud Powell Signature, Women in Music. It is a magazine devoted to the contributions and achievements of women in music, past and present, as composers, performers, educators, historians, promoters, journalists, entrepreneurs.

  23. WOW'EM (Women On the Web--ElectronMedia) is a site aimed at young women with interests in the media arts. The URL is:

    http://music.dartmouth.edu/~wowem

    and Katt Hernandez has a site up for a pretty much stagnant organization called the Coalition of Women Improvisers and Composers whose aim is to try and get more young women involved in playing new music-composing, jazz, electronic music, free improvisation, rock, etc.. . .Go see:

    http://www.personal.umich.edu/~katt/women.html

    She says it would be wonderful to have other people involved again.

  24. The Internet Public Library Reference Center has every useful reference work accessible via the Internet at http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/, I'm told.

    CIA World Fact Book, an encyclopedia of geographical, cultural, economic, and political information on the nations of the world. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/index.html

    Of course, after you finish your geographical explorations (while possibly avoiding finishing your string quartet) go look at the URL for the Icelandic Music Page, about which I received word from the owner, Jon Hrolfur Sigurjonsson jonhs@ismennt.is. There is a (multinational) page for libraries and databases at this URL:

    http://rvik.ismennt.is/~jonhs/Sofn/sofn.html

  25. Regarding women's writings:

    http://www.womenbooks.com WOMEN'S BOOKSHELF - a cybrary of writings by women - Information about books, reports, newsletters, bibliographies, reading lists relevant to your area of interest, out-of-print material reprinted on line, publications for sale can be set up for direct order from WOMEN'S BOOKSHELF. http://www.womenbooks.com/bbs/index.html. http://www.womenbooks.com/bbs6/index.html If you do not have access to the Internet, contact Dr. Anne-Marie Pollowy Toliver email annemarie@womenbooks.com

  26. For inspiration, try "Internet World Online" http://www.internetworld.com/current/foundit.html See women pioneers.

  27. If the web gives you a pain or if you just are too tired to go on, check out these spots: The Collaborative Pain Research Unit Information Service at:

    http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/bi/birjt/cpruis/ or Musicians and Injuries at http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/music.html or Chronic Fatique Syndrome Information at http://www.cais.net/cfs-news/ Those who would like to be able to post messages directly to the cfs newsgroup alt.med.cfs should register for direct posting privileges by doing the following:

    send the commands

    SUB CFS-L YourFirstName YourLastName
    SET CFS-L NOMAIL
    
    as an Internet email message to the address LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV. For more information about the group send a email message to LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV that reads INFO CFS-L. If all else fails, go to Jim Dalton, technical support for the list, at dalton@mcs.com
    or
    do health research in the Merck Manual at http://www.merck.com/ Access to the manual is free of charge, but registration is required for first-time users.
    or
    To feel better, eat better. You might want to try Farm Direct where you can buy fruit and vegetables. Their site address is http://www.farmdirect.com/main-2.0.html The point is that the Internet has a lot of useful and interesting places to go.

  28. Reasons for being online

    Performers write to news groups and actually ask if anyone has written anything for string quartet, for example. You can have performances due to being on the net (assuming you respond to queries), that would never have come your way in a million years.

    Another use for the Internet is to participate in discussions. For example, the ICMC'95 at Banff, "Women's Issues in Computer Music" asked for participation in the panel by sending mail from:

    http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/ICMC/Panels/ or mail to: icmcpanel3@banffcentre.ab.ca The panelists were Susan Frykberg, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Paul Lansky, Andra McCartney and the moderator was Mary Simoni. It was your opportunity to participate without going there physically.

    Another one is that someone, Melissa Thiel thielmd@pacificu.edu for example, might want to make her senior thesis project about "the role of woman as composer". She wrote to the IAWM news list and asked to interview willing composers. This is a way to reach students and scholars in a medium where it is not important where you teach college or how many CDs you have out currently. You have an opportunity to say what your music is about, to talk to individuals and groups of people all over the world, to teach them about your music/aesthetic/scholarly interests, and to learn from them. Sometimes, you will even make friends. So, be interviewed. Be written about. You don't even have to dress up.

  29. Some News Lists
    1. There is a list of musical news lists online called The CTI Music: A List of Musical Discussion Lists. Go to:

      http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/music/research/musicallists.html

    2. IAWM has an active news list (open to all interested persons) which is very useful. It has over 225 list members, including participants from Australia, Austria, Canada, China, England, Finland, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Venezuela and the United States and I am sure it has grown. You can subscribe to the list by sending the command (subscribe)to:

      iawm-request@acuvax.acu.edu The electronic list was established in October of 1993 by the International League of Women Composers to more fully realize founder Nancy Van de Vate's vision to create a network of women composers. Through the list the IAWM shares information that can benefit by wide distribution--including announcements, opportunities listings, news items, general inquiries, reference inquiries, calls for scores and discussions of all other topics of interest to women composers and the women-in-music community. The listowners are Sally Reid, reid@acuvax.acu.edu and Paul MacDonald, macdonal@acuvax.acu.edu You may view IAWM electronic list archives on the web at:

      http://MUSIC.ACU.EDU/WWW/IAWM/archives.html

    3. gen-mus "is a mailing list for discussion of music in relation to women, gender, and sexuality. List managers: Suzanne Cusick, Fred Maus, Chip Whitesell. To subscribe to gen-mus, write to majordomo@virginia.edu, with the message "subscribe gen-mus" or, if you wish to subscribe to an address different from your return address, the message

      subscribe gen-mus address. 
      
      No subject heading is necessary.

    4. The College Music Society has a news list. According to my understanding, when subscribing to this list and the gen-mus list, it is a mistake to enter any information for the subject of the message. Also, there should be absolutely nothing in the body of the message except the command 'subscribe cms-teaching-womgen', or, in the case of the gen-mus list, 'subscribe.' For CMS:

      Majordomo@optim.ism.net

    5. The Sonneck Society sonneck@nevada.edu is the list for the Sonneck Society and only subscribers can post to the list. To subscribe, send an email message to listproc@nevada.edu without anything in the subject line. The body of the message should read:

      subscribe sonneck@nevada.edu [Your First name] [Your Last name]  
      
      Then, you're subscribed and will receive all postings to the list. The URL for the Sonneck Society web site is:

      http://www.aaln.org/sonneck

    6. For those interested in music therapy try, Music Therapy (musthp-l) To join, send the one line:

      subscribe musthp-l firstname lastname 
      
      to listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Send messages to musthp-l@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu If you have any trouble reaching it, try dirkcush@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu This is an electronic discussion group based at Kansas University. It's purpose is to discuss the use of music in addressing mental and physical health.

  30. Some email addresses to get you started American Composers Alliance (info@composers.com) You can place orders for scores with American Composers Editions using this address, among other things.

    and

    GALA, the association of gay and lesbian choruses, can be reached at GALAChorus@aol.com its executive director is Ken Cole. Many of these choruses have their own web sites, and someone is maintaining one for GALA. A general web search should turn it up for you. You may also want to contact Brian at chorus@QueerNet.ORG.

    and

    The email address for Groves, is grove@grovestocktn.com, should you wish to talk to them about including you or your scholarship next time they issue Groves.

    and

    Canadian Music Center cmc@interlog.com or see their site at http://www.culturenet.ca/cmc/

  31. Some Individual Home Pages and Email Addresses for Composers
    1. Beth Anderson-Harold (beand@interport.com) http://www.users.interport.net/~beand/
    2. Lydia Ayers layers@cs.ust.hk
    3. Marilyn Bliss 73304.1643@compuserve.com She requests that anyone contacting her in regard to NYWC, use a subject tag of NYWC so the query is not deleted. That's not a bad idea for all the women on this list, so they can see the source of the query.
    4. Victoria Bond (Bond006@concentric.nett) http://www.cris.com/~Bond006/
    5. Carolyn Bremer http://www.uoknor.edu/music/CRB/crbhome.html
    6. Kristine H. Burns http://www.oberlin.edu/~kburns
    7. Monique Buzzarte http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte
    8. JUSTINE FANG CHEN jfchen@minerva.cis.yale.edu
    9. Anne Deane http://www.ccmrc.ucsb.edu/~anne/
    10. Yantra deVilder http://www.ion.com.au/yoni/yantra/
    11. Elisenda Fabregas fabregas@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu
    12. Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy kak10@cornell.edu
    13. Mara Helmuth http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~mara/
    14. Laura Hoffman http://is.dal.ca/~lhoffman/laurahoffman.html
    15. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin http://ccmrc.ucsb.edu/~musjkm/
    16. Binnette Lipper binnette@aol.com
    17. Pamela J. Marshall http://www.tiac.net/users/spindrift
    18. Andra McCartney http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/andra/andra.html
    19. Elma Miller http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~aa210/Profile.html
    20. Zae Munn http://www.under.org/cpcc/zmunn.htm
    21. Pauline Oliveros Foundation http://artswire.org/pof and http://deeplistening.org
    22. Elizabeth Hayden Pizer 75317.1544@compuserve.com or Elizabeth-Charles.Pizer@worldnet.att.net
    23. Sally Reid http://MUSIC.ACU.EDU/WWW/reid/reid.html
    24. Linda Seltzer lseltzer@phoenix.princeton.edu
    25. Laurie Spiegel http://www.dorsai.org/~spiegel
    26. Diane Thome http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dthome/
    27. Joan Tower http://www.schirmer.com/composers/tower_bio.html
    28. Sharon R. Turner (sturner@cctr.umkc.edu) http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/sturner/music.html
    29. Joelle Wallach http://www.mit.edu01/people/jcb/BCE/Joelle_Wallach.html
    30. Judith Zaimont (jzaimont@worldnet.att.net) http://206.147.225.2/jzaimont

    To find composers/musicologists/friends, etc., if you know the city and/or state in which the person lives, go to the Internet:

    http://www.switchboard.com/

    You can type in the person's name and any geographical information you may have. And quicko-chango, a snail mail address and phone number appear! Or, on the Internet go to http://www.bigfoot.com/ for a national list of email addresses. For composers, contact his/her publisher - addresses on this site, http://host.mpa.org/mpa/publist.html These suggestions come from Monica Hubbard.

  32. Lastly

    If your information is not on this list, it just means I don't have it or didn't find it. I tried to reach people to ask for permission to publish everything here but if I failed to reach you (or if you didn't reply in time) or if the information is incorrect, I'm sorry. Send me mail and I will add, subtract, or correct it in my lists of such things. beth@beand.com


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