Rachel Lumsden

Dados Biográficos

ID3742678
NOMERachel Lumsden
PRENOMESRachel
SOBRENOMELumsden
ASSINATURALUMSDEN R
AFILIAÇÕESFlorida State University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1
OBRAS COMO AUTOR6
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Dreaming Through Variation

    Rachel LumsdenCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Musical…2025

    This chapter explores themes of dreaming as expressed through processes of variation in Florence Price’s “My Dream” and Margaret Bonds’ “Dream Variation.” Although these songs have different titles, they are both based on the same text, the poem “Dream Variations” (1926) by Langston Hughes. The chapter begins with a discussion of the original poem, followed by examinations of how Price and Bonds reworked Hughes’ text. The second half of the chapt…

  • A Survey of the Impact of Covid-19 on Music Theorists

    Open AccessJanet Bourne, Rachel Lumsden et al.ARTICLEMusic Theory Online2024

    We administered an online survey to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the productivity and work/life balance of people who teach music theory and/or aural skills in higher education. The survey included quantitative and qualitative questions about research, 2020–2021 teaching, 2021–2022 teaching, service, and the relationship between work and personal life. According to the survey data, music theorists felt that their ability to work o…

  • "Music Theory for the "Weaker Sex

    Open AccessRachel LumsdenARTICLEMusic Theory Online2020Citada por: 1Referências: 27

    In this article, I examine a cluster of music theory essays by Oliveria Louisa Prescott (1842-1917), which were published between 1886 and 1891 inThe Girl's Own Paper(TGOP), the most popular periodical for young women in Victorian England. Although little known today, Prescott sustained a vibrant musical career in London as a composer and teacher, and her articles on music theory regularly appeared in major periodicals such asThe Musical Worldand…

  • The Pulse Of Life Today”

    Rachel LumsdenARTICLEAmerican Music2017

    Research Article| October 01 2017 "The Pulse Of Life Today": borrowing in Johanna Beyer's String Quartet No. 2 Rachel Lumsden Rachel Lumsden Rachel Lumsden is assistant professor of music theory at Florida State University. Her research interests include ultramodern compositional style, gender and race in early twentieth-century British and American music, and music by women composers. Her work has been published in Black Music Research Journal, …

  • You Too Can Compose

    Open AccessRachel L Lumsden, Rachel LumsdenARTICLEMusic Theory Online2017Referências: 31

    This article offers a detailed explication of the relationship between Ruth Crawford and Vivian Fine, who was Crawford's composition student in the 1920s. Drawing on work by feminist scholars such as hooks, Heilbrun, and Miller, I focus on the connections between gender and modernism in two different aspects of the Crawford/Fine relationship: mentoring and musical style. Closer examination reveals valuable insights not only into the gendered impl…

  • The Music Between Us

    Lumsden, Rachel Lumsden et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies2015

    Feminist Studies 41, no. 2. © 2015 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 335 Rachel Lumsden “The Music Between Us”: Ethel Smyth, Emmeline Pankhurst, and “Possession” But limelight is bad for me: the light in which I work best is twilight. —Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth1 There are few composers who seemed to seek the glow of public limelight more than Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944). Smyth fearlessly forged a career for herself as a professional composer in Brit…