Marian Wilson Kimber
American musicologist
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- Bachelors Music University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marian Wilson Kimber is an American musicologist and a Professor of Music at the University of Iowa. Having completed a dissertation on the autograph scores of Felix Mendelssohn's piano concertos, Wilson Kimber received her PhD in Musicology from Florida State University in 1993. Her work covers topics of gender, biography, performance, and bibliography in the nineteenth century. Specifically, she has published on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Jane Austen, spoken-word recitation to musical accompaniment, and female performance genres. Wilson Kimber's recent book The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word , was a recipient of grants from both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music.
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Published Works
- The "Suppression" of Fanny Mendelssohn: Rethinking Feminist Biography (2002) (21)
- Musical topics, historical styles and narrative in Carl Davis’s score for Pride and Prejudice (1995) (2013) (16)
- Fanny Hensel's Seasons of Life: Poetic Epigrams, Vignettes, and Meaning in Das Jahr (2008) (5)
- Reading Shakespeare, Seeing Mendelssohn: Concert Readings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, ca. 1850–1920 (2007) (5)
- The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word (2017) (5)
- Victorian Fairies and Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream in England (2007) (3)
- Music in the Chautauqua Movement: From 1874 to the 1930s by Paige Lush (review) (2015) (2)
- Jane Austen’s Playlist: Teaching Music History Beyond the Canon (2013) (2)
- Felix and Fanny: gender, biography, and history (2004) (2)
- The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn (2017) (1)
- Women Composers at the White House: The National League of American Pen Women and Phyllis Fergus's Advocacy for Women in American Music (2018) (1)
- Ringing Bells in Accompanied Recitation and Musical Melodrama (2015) (1)
- Mr. Riddle's Readings: Music and Elocution in Nineteenth-Century Concert Life (2007) (1)
- Reciting Parsifal: Opera as Spoken-Word Performance in America (2020) (0)
- Hymnody, Dance and the Sacred in the Illustrated Song (2020) (0)
- Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Mary Simonson (review) (2014) (0)
- Christina Bashford and Roberta Montemorra Marvin, eds, The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800–1930 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2016). xv+350 pp. $115.00. (2017) (0)
- Mendelssohn's Other Concerto: The Changing Reception of the Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 40, in D minor (2010) (0)
- Iowa's Nymphs, Naiads, & Graces: Performing Delsarte for the Masses (2011) (0)
- Mendelssohn's Second Piano Concerto, Op. 40, and the Origins of his Serenade and Allegro Giojoso, Op. 43 (2003) (0)
- Miss Austen Plays Pleyel: An Additional Source for the Jane Austen Family Music Collection? (2020) (0)
- William Weber, The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (2009) (0)
- A Portrait of Mendelssohn (2004) (0)
- A Portrait of Mendelssohn (review) (2004) (0)
- Reviewing the Book Review: A Roundtable (2021) (0)
- A Review of: “Teaching Music History” (2005) (0)
- Clara Schumann Studies, edited by Joe Davies (2023) (0)
- Louise Talma: A Life in Composition. By Kendra Preston Leonard. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. (2017) (0)
- Various Artists. The Music of William C. Wright: Solo Piano and Vocal Works, 1847–1893. Permelia Records 010225, 2013. (2014) (0)
- Musical Iowana (2019) (0)
- Fanny in Italy: The Female Composer as Travel Writer (2017) (0)
- Music Library Association Administrative Structure (2003) (0)
- Candace Bailey, Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer (2012) (0)
- Michael V. Pisani, Music in the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York (2015) (0)
- Of ‘Bumps’ and Biography: A Response to Marcia Citron (2008) (0)
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