Abstract
In "Singing Values," a paper delivered at the conference Feminist Theory and Music 6 (Boise, 2001), J. Michele Edwards addressed, among other things, the potential of women's choruses on one hand to empower women, and on the other to reinforce negative gender stereotypes. She raised questions about the availability of repertory by women composers, the suitability of texts sung by women's choruses, and stylistic limitations stemming from cultural values rather than physical vocal characteristics. Her paper provides a useful framework for this review of The Sea-Fairies, a choral work for women's voices composed by Amy Beach (1867-1944), a prominent American Victorian woman composer, to a text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809- 1892), an even more prominent older English Victorian male poet.
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