THE KAPRALOVA SOCIETY JOURNAL: A Journal of Women in Music

Contributors:
Alice Abraham
Diana Ambache
Asher Ian Armstrong
Sarah Baer
Elisabeth Blair
Marta Blalock
Anja Bunzel
G. D. Cannady
Tamara Cashour
Cristina Castaldi
Timothy Cheek
Arturo Desimone
Jessica Edgar
Samantha Ege
Stéphane Egeling
Erik Entwistle
Laurence Equilbey
Christine Fischer
Erika Fronkova
Eugene Gates
Michael Haas
Erin Hackel Hauger
Camilla Hambro
Karla Hartl
George Henderson
Peter Herbert
Jessica Horsley
Alan Houtchens
Tereza Jandura
Jennifer Kelly
Kheng K. Koay
Martin Kostas
Giorgio Koukl
Michelle Latour
Judith Mabary
Odaline de la Martinez
Holly Mathieson
Katerina Mayrova
Eva Meitner
Zachary Milliman
Tom Moore
Lenka Nota
Diane M. Paige
Sabrina Pena Young
Lydia Perovic
Maria Noriega Rachwal
Patrick Reynolds
Christina Reitz
Elia Sanaleuterio
Ludwig Semerjian
Olga Settari
Sandra Soler
Hye-Bin Song
Kyra Steckeweh
Wendy Suiter
Chris A. Trotman
Serena Wang
Hanus Weigl

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Kapralova Society Journal: A Journal of Women in Music will become an annual journal beginning in 2025. The deadline for receipt of articles and reviews will be August 15 of each year. All submissions are reviewed by an editorial board. The editors reserve the right to revise and/or shorten articles and reviews to conform to the requirements of the journal. The publisher reserves the right to distribute the journal in any medium.

Guidelines for contributors: Send your article and a short bio by e-mail to the publisher: society[at]kapralova[dot]org. The text should be single-spaced and without any special formatting. Use endnotes (with Arabic numerals) instead of footnotes. For questions of style, consult the Chicago Manual of Style and the style sheet Writing about Music by D. Kern Holoman. Photographs and music examples should be submitted in digital format (jpg, eps, png, and tiff, but no pdf). Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material.

Copyright: Please note that no part of this publication may be republished without permission in writing from the publisher. Authors of published texts, however, may republish their work without permission, but should credit the journal as a matter of courtesy.

THE KAPRALOVA SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN 1715-4146

Please note that Kapralova Society Journal is a continuation of Kapralova Society Newsletter (scroll to the bottom of this page for the newsletter) [Eds.]

Volume XXIII, Annual Issue (2025) [11,241 kB]
Vitezslava Kapralova's Sonata Appassionata: A Pianist Perspective
Kapralova's Bell Tower: Variations sur le carillon de l'eglise St-Etienne-du-Mont
Women of the 19th–century salon: Mme Esther Becquie
Reports
In Review

Volume XXII, Issue 2 (Summer 2024) [3366 kB]
Seside Lullabies, Erotic Nocturnes, and Flamenco Flourishes: the Art Song of Poldowski
Eartha Kitt–The Early Years: A Young Performer Finds Her Voice
Kapralova at the Proms: The Bachtrack Interview (unabridged)
Women of the 19th–century salon: Jeannette Boutibonne
In Review
New releases and publications

Volume XXII, Issue 1 (Winter 2024) [2190 kB]
Inner Mind Narrative of Stacy Garrop in Inner Demons
Women of the 19th–century salon: Mlle E. Mailly
In Review
New releases and publications

Volume XXI, Issue 2 (Summer 2023) [952 kB]
Hacking the Canon: Cataloguing the Excluded
Maria Valles Sostres in the Catalan Press
Reports, new releases and publications

Volume XXI, Issue 1 (Winter 2023) [1,194 kB]
Ephemeral Incandescence: the April Preludes of Vitezslava Kapralova
Vitezslava Kapralova: Thematic Catalogue of the Works. An Introduction
Women of the 19th-Century Salon: Mlle Philibert
In Review
New publications

Volume XX, Issue 2 (Summer 2022) [6,685 kB]
French Women Composers of the Long Nineteenth Century
Exploring Women’s Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture in the Czech Lands
Alone, Together: the Dis/embodied Soprano Voice in Oxbridge Chapel Choirs
The Adore Project: Interview with Patrick Reynolds
In Search of Female Voices: Interview with Kyra Steckeweh
In Review
New publications, releases, reports

Volume XX, Issue 1 (Winter 2022) [1,399 kB]
The Power of Advocacy in Music: The Case of Vitezslava Kapralova
Dora Pejacevic: Dean of Croatian Women Composers
Women of the 19th Century Salon: Laure Brice
In Review
New releases and publications

Volume XIX, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) [1,593 kB]
Bokken Lasson: Norwegian Feminist, Artist, Entrepreneur
Listening to Ladies: Interview with the podcast producer Elisabeth Blair
In Review
New releases and publications

Volume XIX, Issue 1 (Winter 2021) [4,103 kB]
J.L. Zaimont's Musical Storytelling in Virgie Rainey
Where has this music been all my life? On women composers in the 20th century
Women of the 19th Century Salon: Leonie Collongues
In Review
New publications

Volume XVIII, Issue 2 (Summer 2020) [4,373 kB]
Ending Republican Gender Politics: Vitezslava Kapralova’s Cantata Ilena
Women of the 19th Century Salon: Mlle Ida Boulee (1832–1863)
Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko: Pioneer of Operatic Performance in Nigeria
In Review
New publications

Volume XVIII, Issue 1 (Winter 2020) [5,120 kB]
Emerging from the Shadows: Maude Valerie White, a Significant Figure in the History of English Song
Vitezslava Kapralova: Dance for Piano (with a score)
In Review
New publications

Volume XVII, Issue 2 (Fall 2019) [3,093 kB]
Clara Schumann: New Cadenzas for Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor. Romantic Visions of a Classical Masterpiece
Vitezslava Kapralova: Tales of a Small Flute
In Review
New publications

Volume XVII, Issue 1 (Spring 2019) [4,553 kB]
Kapralova as a Composer of the Week: The BBC Interview
Venus Unwrapped: The 2018/19 season at Kings Place
Composer Legends at the IFSM 2018 (Festival Report)
Women at the 74th International Prague Spring Festival
In Review
New releases and publications

Volume XVI, Issue 2 (Fall 2018) [1,651 kB]
Women of the 19th Century Salon: Leonie Tonel, Maddalena Croff and Elisa Bosch
Vitezslava Kapralova: Two Orchestral Suites
Discovering Hidden Figures / Mawrtian Minutes
The Festival "frauenkomponiert" 2018 Report
In Review
New releases and publications

Volume XVI, Issue 1 (Spring 2018) [1,735 kB]
Florence Price and the Politics of Her Existence
Reviews, new releases and publications

Volume XV, Issue 2 (Fall 2017) [4,491 kB]
Yvette Guilbert: La Diseuse
To be in harmony with my soul. Interview with composer Lenka Nota
Reviews, new releases and publications

Volume XV, Issue 1 (Spring 2017) [4,696 kB]
Victoria for Mrs. President! Modern Women at the Opera
I love diversity! Interview with conductor Eva Meitner
Women composers: Degenerate, deviant or deliberately downgraded?
Kapralova's Piano Miniature (with a score)
New releases and publications

Volume XIV, Issue 2 (Fall 2016) [4,628 kB]
Influence, Individuality and Stylistic Evolution in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn
I haven't looked back since. Interview with conductor Odaline de la Martinez
Kapralova's Festive Fanfare (1940) (with a score)
Reviews, new releases and publications

Volume XIV, Issue 1 (Spring 2016) [2,387 kB]
Feminizing the stage: Early Lady Orchestras and Their Maestras
The 'frauenkomponiert' project. Interview with conductor Jessica Horsley
ForumMusikDiversitat's symposium on Kapralova (report)
New publications

Volume XIII, Issue 2 (Fall 2015) [5,098 kB]
Vitezslava Kapralova and the Benefits of Advocacy
From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall. Interview with author Maria Noriega Rachwal
Kapralova's Fanfare for My Dad's 50th Birthday (with a score)

Volume XIII, Issue 1 (Spring 2015) [6,876 kB] Special Centenary Issue
The Centenary of Vitezslava Kapralova
The Kapralova Society: Accomplishments in brief

Volume XII, Issue 2 (Fall 2014) [3,684 kB] this issue is no longer available
Eugenie Goering: A German Composer in Vermont during the World War II
Vitezslava Kapralova: Sbohem a satecek, op. 14

Volume XII, Issue 1 (Spring 2014) [2,065 kB]
Sad Evening, Great discovery: Bringing to Light a New Song by Vitezslava Kapralova
There will be joy. Interview with conductor Laurence Equilbey

Volume XI, Issue 2 (Fall 2013) [929 kB]
Dame Vera Lynn: Voice of a Generation
An Analysis of Kapralova's Song Cycle Navzdy, op. 12
Reviews

Volume XI, Issue 1 (Spring 2013) [1,597 kB]
Dame Ethel Smyth: Pioneer of English opera
New releases and publications

Volume X, Issue 2 (Fall 2012) [2,697 kB]
Kapralova and the Muses: Understanding the Qualified Composer
Kapralova's Piano Concerto in D Minor, op. 7
New releases and publications

Volume X, Issue 1 (Spring 2012) [2,130 kB]
An Analysis of Compositional Methods Applied in Kapralova's Cantata Ilena, op. 15
Kapralova's Vteriny, op. 18
Love to make people cry. Interview with conductor Maria Segura-Thijssen
Recent releases and publications

Volume IX, Issue 2 (Fall 2011) [2,238 kB]
Kapralova's Leden (1933)
Kapralova's Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon (1937-1938)
Reviews, publications, releases

Volume IX, Issue 1 (Spring 2011) [3,762kB]
Kapralova's Jablko s klina, op. 10
New releases and publications

Volume VIII, Issue 2 (Fall 2010) [1,125kB]
Mrs. H.H.A. Beach: American symphonist
New releases and publications

Volume VIII, Issue 1 (Spring 2010) [1,380kB]
Kapralova's String Quartet, op. 8

Volume VII, Issue 2 (Fall 2009) [490kB]
Clara Schumann: A Composer's Wife as Composer
Vernacular and Classical: An Appalachian Marriage in the Work of Jennifer Higdon

Volume VII, Issue 1 (Spring 2009) [772kB]
Contemporary American Women Composers and Their Choral Music: Part II
Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907): "A Perfectly Plain Woman?"

Volume VI, Issue 2 (Fall 2008) [1,247kB]
Contemporary American Women Composers and Their Choral Music: Part I
Intermedia: Redefining American Music at the Turn of the Third Millennium

Volume VI, Issue 1 (Spring 2008) [1,081kB]
Letters to Kapralova and Other Correspondence of Bohuslav Martinu
American Women Composers of Choral Music: An introduction

Volume V, Issue 2 (Fall 2007) [1,064kB]
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: A Life of Music within Domestic Limits

Volume V, Issue 1 (Spring 2007) [3,370kB] this issue is no longer available
Vitezslava Kapralova's Piano Compositions
Vitezslava Kapralova: An Annotated Life Chronology. Part IV.

Volume IV, Issue 2 (Fall 2006) [1,035kB]
The Woman Composer Question: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives

Volume IV, Issue 1 (Spring 2006) [477kB] this issue is no longer available
Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don't: Sexual Aesthetics and the Music of Dame Ethel Smyth
Vitezslava Kapralova: An Annotated Life Chronology. Part III.

Volume III, Issue 2 (Fall 2005) [508kB]
Navzdy [Forever] Kapralova. Reevaluating Czech Composer Vitezslava Kapralova through Her Thirty Songs
Women composers. A Critical Review of the Psychological Literature

Volume III, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) [338kB] this issue is no longer available
Love's Labour's Lost: Martinu, Kapralova, and Hitler
Kapralova's Correspondence with Otakar Sourek
Where Are All the Women Composers? Reclaiming a Cultural Heritage
Vitezslava Kapralova: An Annotated Life Chronology. Part II

THE KAPRALOVA SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

Volume II, Issue 2 (Fall 2004) [3,139kB] this issue is no longer available
"To je Julietta": Martinu, Kapralova, and Musical Symbolism

Volume II, Issue 1 (Spring 2004) [951kB] this issue is no longer available
Last Concertino
The Concertino in Correspondence
Rejoicing in the memories of Vitezslava Kapralova
Two letters: Kapralova's correspondence with Hanus Weigl
Vitezslava Kapralova: An Annotated Life Chronology. Part I

Volume I, Issue 1 (Fall 2003) [777kB] this issue is no longer available
In Search of a Voice: TheStory of Vitezslava Kapralova
Vitezslava Kapralova: An Annotated Catalogue of Her Works