5 forgotten female music composers
SOUVIK CHAKRABORTY
Music is the medicine for every other insatiate soul . The blemish of depression rubs off best with the melodic trance , dripping down like honey dew drops from the nectar filled voice of the nightingales .
Whether it is the melody , opera , rock , jazz or any other form of music ; listeners fix their genre according to their moods and switch to the world of musical ecstasy . A clear rhyme and a matching tune to it , creates a music that lingers all day long .
Music shakes up the chords present inside , by the vibrations of a soul stirring music . Emotions brim with intonations of melody . There is a lot to grasp from music . But , there has been a bias from the era of birth of music ; and the planet sort of drew a patriarchal arch over the axes of music . It is sad and unfortunate that the composition of music was considered a taboo for centuries ; if it was crafted and tuned by a woman .
This stereotype approach waned off pretty soon and eventually failing all the odds , the women of the times , finally marked their mark and made the world feel it ' s importance in the realm of music by fuelling their love with dedication and passion . Though , it is factually true , that compared to men , women always remained less in number when it comes to composing music . But if we search the annals of history there were in fact exemplary evidences of ample performances from talented female composers .
Let ’ s shine again upon the five most talented female composers ever whom the evolutionary lineage of music has deleted from its history !
Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger is considered as the first woman among other female composers of her time to become the winner of the most prestigious award Prix De Rome . Boulanger , at a very young age of 20 , won such a glamorous award for the composition of cantata Faust et Hélène in her nativity , France . However , unfortunately her health did not shine the way her talent did . She was fragile right from her childhood days , which ultimately lead to the path of an end to this young and talented character . After her death , Nadia , the younger sister followed the same track and marked a noble place like her late elder sister . Nadia even received the second prize in the same competition of Prix De Rome . Touching popularity Nadia never forgot the existence of her elder sister . She in memory of Lili created a fund for the purpose of boosting the careers of young talents in Boston like her elder sister . Lili ' s story was thus cut short before she could kiss the pinnacles of success .
St . Hildegard of Bingen
The most critically appreciated work that gained immense popularity was a morality drama by Hildegard known as ‘ Ordo Virtutum ’. Her musical territory was so large that it enmassed the volume of a planet . Among all the present talent holders , she became an icon who ’ s caliber could only be confined to infinity . Hildegard ’ s talent was actually many faceted , she descended a stream of ever flowing inspiration . She was an abbess , a visionary , a leader , poet , a dramatist , a herbalist and a composer . In the field of music , she had created awesome contents among which 80 pieces were considered as the best of all bests from the starting of time . She proved her élan in every domain she ever ventured into . Her , Symphony of Harmony of Heavenly Revelations was a compact of the collection that carried the liturgical forms of antiphons , sequences , responsorial and hymns . Boldness was her stamp of contemplating music . Her signature style soon turned out to be the creation of entwined cords of delighted melodies with her use of theatrical flowing lines that jump into wide gaps of fourths and fifths .
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