Women's Music Links

This is just a starting point for finding information about Women in Music on the World Wide Web.

Selected Reference Books in Mills Library

Includes bibliographies, encyclopedias and other works that contain information about composers represented in the Women's Sheet Music Collection.

  • Block, Adrienne Fried. Women in American music: a bibliography of music and literature, compiled and edited by Adrienne Fried Block and Carol Neuls-Bates. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979).
    Call No.: ML128 W7 B6
  • Claghorn, Charles Eugene. Women composers and hymnists: a concise biographical dictionary (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984).
    Call No.: BV325 C58 1984
  • Cohen, Aaron I. International encyclopedia of women composers. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. (New York: Books & Music (USA), c1987).
    Call No.: ML105 C7 1987
  • Ericson, Margaret. Women and music: a selective annotated bibliography on women and gender issues in music, 1987-1992. (New York: G.K. Hall ; London: Prentice Hall International, c1996).
    Call No.: ML128 W7 E75 1996
  • Epstein, Selma. A guide for researching music by women composers. (Dickeyville, MD: Chromattica USA, c1990).
    Call No.: ML128 W7 E6 1990
  • Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora guide to women composers: Britain and the UnitedStates 1629–present. (London ; San Francisco: Pandora, 1994).
    Call No.: ML390 F94 1994
  • From convent to concert hall: a guide to women composers, edited by Sylvia Glickman and Martha Furman Schleifer (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003).
    Call No.: ML82 F76 2003
  • Grattan, Virginia L. American women songwriters: a biographical dictionary. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1993).
    Call No.: ML106 U3 G73 1993
  • Hixon, Donald L. Women in music: an encyclopedic bio-bibliography. 2nd ed. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993).
    Call No.: ML105 H6 1993
  • Jackson, Barbara Garvey. Say can you deny me: a guide to surviving music by women from the 16th through the 18th centuries (Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1994).
    Call No.: ML128 W7 J3 1994
  • Jezic, Diane. Women composers: the lost tradition found. 2nd ed. prepared by Elizabeth Wood. (New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994).
    Call No.: ML390 J37 1994
  • LePage, Jane Weiner. Women composers, conductors, and musicians of the twentieth century: selected biographies. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980–)
    Call No.: ML82 L46 v.1-3.
  • The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers, edited by Julie Anne Sadie & Rhian Samuel. 1st American ed. (New York ; London: W.W. Norton, 1994).
    Call No.: ML105 N67 1994
  • Skowronski, JoAnn. Women in American music, a bibliography (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978.)
    Call No.: ML128 W7 S6
  • Stewart-Green, Miriam. Women composers: a checklist of works for the solo voice (Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, [1980])
    Call No.: ML128 V7 S88
  • Zaimont, Judith Lang. Contemporary concert music by women: a directory of the composers and their works, a project of the International League of Women Composers, Inc. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981).
    Call No.: ML105 Z34

Other Sources for Women in Music Bibliographies

Selected Books & Scores in Mills Library

A brief list of titles from our collection, mostly about historical women in music.

Selected Recordings in Mills Library

A brief discography of recordings that focus on women by women composers. All recordings listed can be found at the Mills Music Library Audio Facility. See also discographies of women in music at the bottom of this page.

Discographies on Women in Music in Mills Reference Collection
  • Cohen, Aaron I. International discography of women composers (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1984).
    Call No.: ML156.4 W6 C6 1984
  • Frasier, Jane. Women composers: a discography (Detroit, Mich.: Information Coordinators, 1983).
    Call No.: ML156.4 W6 F7 1983