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Lists of women in music cover different categories of women in music, including composers, conductors, groups, musicians and singers. They are organized by instrument, nationality, style and so on. They are organized by instrument, nationality, style and so on.
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
The following albums, recorded by female solo artists and all-female groups, have sold at least 10 million copies. This list can contain any types of album, including studio albums, extended plays, greatest hits, compilations, soundtracks, and remixes.
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Additional female composers are listed below. Some are also performers (e.g. Agnes Tyrrell, Amy Beach and Verdina Shlonsky were noted pianists). For a full list, see List of female composers by birth year. Agnes Tyrrell (1846–1883) Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) Amy Beach (1867–1944) Dora Pejačević (1885–1923) Florence Price (1887–1953)
Eva Best (1851–1925) Charlotte Bray (born 1982) Gertrude van den Bergh (1793–1840) Christine Berl (born 1943) Catalina Berroa (1849–1911) Louise Bertin (1805–1877) Johanna Beyer (1888–1944) Lycia de Biase Bidart (1910–1990) Gillian Bibby (born 1945) Marie Bigot (1786–1820) Beatriz Bilbao (born 1951) Elizabeth Weichsell Billington ...
19th-century composer and pianist Clara Schumann. Owing to sexism, women composers of Western classical music are disproportionately absent from the music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the patriarchical Western canon, even though many women have composed music. [a] The reasons for women's absence are various.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Jazz guitarists. It includes jazz guitarists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for articles about female jazz guitarists .