I was talking with one of my high school students a few weeks ago about music by women composers.

We were studying "Canoeing" by Amy Beach in the Celebration Series Level 7 Piano Repertoire book, the third piece in her Op. 119 collection, From Six to Twelve for Piano written in 1927.

We listened to a recording of the piece and played through the score. We discussed how the rippling eighth notes between the hands create a sense of paddling, left then right. We talked about Amy Beach's life, marriage, and musical career.

This is how the idea began for studying and learning music by women composers during the month of March, International Women's Month.

In this episode, I'll talk about the composers and scores we'll study over the next four weeks and share a resource list of elementary and intermediate piano music written by women composers that you can reference in your teaching.

For show notes + a full transcript, click here.

Resources Mentioned

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Celebration Series Level 7 Piano Repertoire

From Six to Twelve for Piano, Op. 119 (Amy C. Beach)

Album des Enfants, Op. 123 (Cecile Chaminade)

6 petites pièces (Charlotte Sohy)

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Album des Enfants, Op. 126 by Cecile Chaminade

Scenes Enfantines, Op. 92 by Mel. Bonis

Canoeing, Op. 119, No. 3 by Amy Beach

Portraits in Jazz by Valerie Capers

25 Progressive Etudes by Louise Farrenc

Little Gems for Piano (Paula Dreyer)

Interview with Paula Dreyer (Musician & Co.)

Up-Grade! (Pam Wedgwood)

The Old Boatman (Florence Price)

Gifts of Asia (arr. Emilie Lin)

Splattered with Fun! (Glenda Austin)

I'm Not Scared (Nancy Telfer)

Pictures and Beyond, Book 1 and Book 2 (Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee)

At the Piano (Katherine Hoover)

Piano Dreams (Anne Terzibaschitsch)

Cool Piano, Book 1 (Heather Hammond)

Jazz, Rags, and Blues, Book 1 + Christmas Jazz, Rags, and Blues (Martha Mier)

Enchanted World (Winnie the Pooh) (June Armstrong)

At the Lake (Elvina Truman Pearce)

Very Easy Little Peppers (Elissa Milne)

Higgledy Piggledy Jazz (Elena Cobb)

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Impressions: Suite for Solo Piano (Jennifer Eklund)

The Best of Melody Bober, Book 2 (Melody Bober)

Victress Sessions (Andrea Dow)

A Collection of Florence Price's Piano Teaching Music Vol 1. Beginning Pieces (Florence Price)

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