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Unlike previous examinations of women and musical composition, this book concentrates on the reasons why there have been, and continue to be, so few women composers.

When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain¿s most prolific female composers. Gipps¿s talents were acknowledged but not always respected and she was a figure often dogged by controversy. In the first major review of her life and work the importance of Ruth Gipps is established in two ways: first, as a pioneering woman composer and conductor whose work challenged prevailing attitudes in the era directly after the war and seco...

When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain's most prolific female composers. This book offers a review of her life and work. The first section documents her formative years. In the second part her compositional output is reviewed. Works are explored via the themes of her creative agenda, namely anti-modernism and Englishness.