The Maud Powell Signature, Women in Music

The Maud Powell Signature, Women in Music, also known as Signature, is an American online music periodical. It is published free of charge by The Maud Powell Society for Music and Education, a non-profit charity Section 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1986 and based in Brevard, North Carolina. Signature launched in 1995^[1] as a quarterly print subscription magazine, publishing five editions through 1997. After a nine-year hiatus due to a lack of funding,^[2] the editors resurrected the publication with a much lower overhead, distributing issues free online in pdf.

The overarching topics relate to women in classical music, historic and current.^[3] The contributing editors are music scholars, music critics, and music educators.^[4] Submissions and acceptances are neither juried nor solicited nor peer-reviewed by outside scholars; although the managing editor, Pamela J. Blevins and associate editor, Karen A. Shaffer, both music scholars, weigh the veracity and worthiness themselves. The published submissions range from seminal research to dissertation spin-offs to editorials to biography supplements to general articles about forgotten or overlooked women, especially composers, who made, or are now making, important contributions to music.^[5]