[log in to unmask] writes: >Does it make any difference to you if you know that the piece of music you >are listening to was composed by a woman? No. But then, it wouldn't make any difference to me if I found out that JS Bach was actually an Icelandic female impersonator of the 15th century. (Yeah, I know, this secret is actually common knowledge.) The non-musical "specifics" of a composer are of interest to me only in so far as I have an extra-musical interest in the composer's culture. But why should it matter if Tailleferre's music was composed by a woman? The music isn't gender-specific. By the way, I forgot to mention one of my favorite 20th century composers earlier, when we considering women-as-composers: Jean Coulthard. Barry Brenesal