| Elliott Carter, Gesualdo, George Crumb, Revueltas, and John Dowland are worthy additions. Also, while I understand and sympathize with the impulse to include composers like Amy Beach and Nadia Boulanger, I think the place to find significant female composers is in the past thirty years--Sofia Gubaidulina, Joan Tower, Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe, Kaija Saariaho, Chen Yi, et al. |