The owner of this website is Maria A. Niederberger, Professor for Music Theory and Composition at East Tennessee State
University, an accomplished composer herself.
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Maria A. Niederberger
(quotation from an e-mail received from Dr. Amber E. Kinser, Director Women's Studies Program at ETSU, East Tennessee State University, Wed, 11 April 2007:)
Important Announcement from Women's Studies - 2007 ETSU Notable Women Selected
Notable Women of ETSU 2007
On behalf of the Women’s Studies Steering Committee, and as director of Women’s Studies, I want to thank everyone who answered our call for nominations for the Notable Women of ETSU 2007 award. This award is presented annually by the Women’s Studies Program to honor two women faculty whose work has had notable impact on our campus and in our community or region. We continue to find the task of selecting two women from the impressive pool of nominations each year an exceptionally difficult one, though we see this as a grand dilemma. We hope the ETSU community continues to honor and celebrate all of the notable women on our campus.
Women’s Studies is proud to announce the 2007 Notable Women of ETSU:
Dr. Maria Niederberger
Associate Professor of Theory and Composition
Department of Music
Dr. Peggy Cantrell
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Department of Psychology
Dr. Niederberger and Dr. Cantrell will be the featured speakers at our sixth annual Notable Women of ETSU colloquium, scheduled for Wednesday, November 14th at 5:00 PM in the East Tennessee Room, Culp Center. We hope you will attend.
We thank you for supporting the accomplishments of women on our campus and encourage you to consider whom you might nominate for 2008.
Amber E. Kinser, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s Studies Program
Thank you!
I am extremely pleased and I wish to thank the Women's Studies Steering Committee and Women's Studies' director, Dr. Kinser, for the honor of being awarded
«2007 Notable Woman of ETSU»
(ETSU is East Tennessee State University).
This acknowledgment will further encourage me in giving my best as an artist, a scholar and a teacher.
Maria A. Niederberger
The English version of this website —what you are looking at right now— is still being worked on. Some
of the texts, especially newspaper articles, were first published in German and still need to be translated. We will post them as soon
as they become available in English.
Thank you for your understanding.
I find the chronological course of a composition to be crucial.
The flow should be carefully structured by contrasts and accents, and supported by modulations of various kinds. To put it this way:
I construct and deconstruct sounds.
Seen from this perspective, my composing compares much to the work of a sculptor: by creating lengths, depths and heights I create dimensionality.
Maria A. Niederberger