Judith Weir : Master of the Queen's Music

Composer Judith Weir will be the first female Master of the Queen's Music, when she succeeds Sir Peter Maxwell this year.

• Read the Sunday Times Article here.
• Commentary in The Guardian newspaper here.
• Check out some of Weir's works in the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland here.
• Registered staff and students can find more electronic info and streamed sound on the Library and Information Services databases page.

Lisa Colton on Women Composers: 'Don't Do it Like a Dude: Exploring Differences in the Music of Judith Weir'

Do women compose 'differently'? Are we perceived as doing it differently? Here's an interesting article, 'Don't Do it Like a Dude', by Lisa Colton of the University of Huddersfield.  Note the citation details here:-
 
(Don't) Do it Like a Dude: Exploring Differences in the Music of Judith Weir (click link here)

Lisa Colton (click link to visit Lisa's Academia.edu page)