Pauline Alderman

Pauline Alderman ( born January 16, 1893 in Lafayette, Oregon, † October 11, 1983 in Los Angeles ) was an American musicologist and composer.

Alderman received an education in piano and organ as well as in English and German literature in their youth. Since 1916, she taught English literature at the junior high school of McMinnville. Since 1918, she taught history and music in Portland and attended the summer music courses at the University of California at Berkeley. It was then a student of Carolyn Alchin, where she studied 1920-1923, while at the same time at the Ellison -White School, a newly founded Conservatory in Portland, taught.

Since 1923, she attended the New York Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School of Music), where she was a student of Percy Goetschius. From 1924 she taught piano, music theory and music history at Pomona College in Claremont / California. From 1928 to 1930, she had a contract at the University of Washington, after which she taught music history and literature at the University of Southern California ( USC) in Los Angeles. In 1935, she took lessons with Arnold Schoenberg.

As of 1938, Alderman held on in Europe, where she studied at the University of Edinburgh at Donald Francis Tovey and at the University of Strasbourg among others. In 1940, she returned to Los Angeles, where she taught again at USC and took composition lessons with Ernst Toch and Lucien Cailliet. In 1946 she received his doctorate at USC with the work of Antoine Boesset and the Air de Cour. From 1952 until her retirement in 1960, she held the chair of music history here.

In addition to songs Alderman composed the opera Bombasto Furioso (1938 ) and the operetta Come On Over ( 1941).

Since 1985, the International Congress on Women in Music awards the Pauline Alderman Award for musicological and journalism about women in music.

Writings

  • Antoine Boesset and the Air de Cour, Dissertation, 1946
  • A Survey of Vocal Literature ( 1952)
  • Theme and Variations ( 1943-45 )
  • Pioneers of Music ( 1950)
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • American composer
  • Musicologist
  • Person ( women's history )
  • Born in 1893
  • Died in 1983
  • Woman
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