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Perhaps I should be pleased that spambots have actually developed enough to be able to vaguely recognise the nature of my rather irregularly updated blog. Most of the spam currently awaiting disposal makes polite, only slightly incoherent comments about something it describes as “instrumental music”. Unfortunately, I can only assume that the people who write [...]

Previous Post Culprit #3: Feminism (I’ll try to explain myself) An article I saw  on Gloria Coates’ website noted that, throughout the course of Western art music, symphonies by female composers have been few and far between. In large part this is due to the general lack of female composers until the beginning of the [...]