DATABASE & CURRICULUM GUIDES
A Knowledge Center about Women and Gender-Marginalized Composers
DATABASE
Designed for everyone – musicians, performers, conductors, students, researchers, educators, artistic administrators, and anyone with a curious mind – Boulanger Initiative Database (BID) provides access to thousands of works by women and gender-marginalized composers. By sharing knowledge and resources, BID increases access to works by underrepresented composers, empowering all who wish to diversify classical music programming.
Our current catalogue focuses on access to both repertoire by and information about non-living composers, with an array of filtering options and redirection towards primary resources to streamline your search process. Database users will find a wealth of information about historical composers, including: links to composer websites and Wikipedia articles, notes on the composer, public domain images and photographs, and/or links to their works currently in the database. Information about works will include: links to scores (publisher and library access), audio and video recordings, and/or notes on relevant details such as text authors, translations, and movement titles.
CURRICULUM GUIDES &
ACTIVITIES SUPPLEMENTS
Beyond The Box, Into the Barlines — Baroque-Era Women Composers
Beyond the Box is a curriculum guide series designed by Boulanger Initiative to bring to life women and gender-marginalized composers and musicians who have historically been relegated to one paragraph inserts or boxes in standard music history textbooks. In these pages you will find information about not just music, but history, science, literature, art, fashion, cuisine; in other words, the worlds in which these composers lived!
You will also find an activity supplement with additional content for you to explore, including short informational videos, exercises, discussion prompts, games and more!
Beyond The Box, Into the Barlines — Women Composers Throughout History: Orchestra Edition
With orchestral programming trends remaining deeply unequal, this exploration of sixteen different women composers from all over the world will give you just a glimpse into the wealth of overtures, symphonies, and other pieces for orchestra that have been previously overlooked, from the 1700s to Present Day.
This book is an unprecedented effort to bring the lives and music of 16 outstanding women composers out of obscurity and back into the spotlight.