This article provides a list of women composers, sorted alphabetically by surname. For a list of women composers sorted by year of birth, see
List of women composers by birth date
Women composers of Western classical music are disproportionately absent from music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the Western canon, even though many women have composed music.
The reasons for women's absence are various. The m ...
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List of Australian women composers
This is a list of Australian women composers of classical music, contemporary music and/or film soundtracks.
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* Tina Arena (born 1967)
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women
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or Adolescence, adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female hum ...
Composers
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Classical music, Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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Women in music