Women in Music (Spring 2018) Assignments for the Undergraduate Seminar

Blake Howe Louisiana State University

WMSR Carol Neuls-Bates, ed., Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present, rev. ed. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996).

WMM Jane Bowers and Judith Tick, eds., Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150–1950 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986).

HAMW James R. Briscoe, ed., New Historical Anthology of Music by Women (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004).

Topic Reading Listening

1/11 Introduction WMSR, #34, 35, 37–39, 47 “Why Have There Been No Mara Gibson, “Skirts or Pants? Great Women Composers?” How About Both,” NewMusicBox (5 March 2014).

1/16 Kassia WMSR, #1–4 HAMW, pp. 6–20 Hildegard of Bingen WMM, Chapter 2

1/18 La Comtessa de Dia WMSR, #5–6 HAMW, pp. 21–29 Dame Maroie de Diergnau WMM, Chapter 3 Dame Margot

1/23 Margaret of Austria WMSR, #7 HAMW, pp. 31–43 Anne Boleyn WMM, Chapter 4 Isabella d’Este Anne MacNeil, dir., “Ad tempo taci”: Songs for Isabella d’Este (2015)

1/25 Maddalena Casulana WMSR #9, 10 HAMW, pp. 44–59 Francesca Caccini WMM, Chapter 6 (pp. 116–25, 129–41) Howe / Women in Music – Assignments / 2

1/30 Suor Leonora d’Este WMSR, #8 HAMW, pp. 69–79 Lucrezia Vizzana WMM, Chapter 6 (pp. 125–28, Isabella Leonardo 141–46) Laurie Stras, “Sisters Doing It for Themselves: Radical Motets from a 16th-century Nunnery,” The Guardian (10 March 2017)

2/1 Barbara Strozzi WMM, Chapter 7 HAMW, pp. 60–68

2/6 Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de WMSR, #11 HAMW, pp. 80–98 la Guerre WMM, Chapter 8

2/8 Maria Theresia von Paradis WMSR, #13, 15, 16 HAMW, pp. 121–25 Corona Schröter WMM, Chapter 9 Schröter, “Der Erlköng” Louise Reichardt (score) (recording) Reichardt, “Unruhiger Schlaf” (score) (recording)

2/15 Sara Levy WMSR, #22 HAMW, pp. 134–39 Fanny Hensel Rebecca Cypess, “Silence from Hensel, Das Jahr (recording) the Salon: In Search of Sara We will meet today in Hill Levy,” The Avid Listener (7 Memorial Library (Special September 2015). Collections) to study a Nancy Reich, “The Power of facsimile of Das Jahr and Class: Fanny Hensel,” in other materials. Mendelssohn and His World, ed. R. Larry Todd, 86–99 (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1991).

2/20 Louise Farrenc Bea Friedland, “Louise Farrenc HAMW, pp. 170–87 (1804–1875): Composer, Performer, Scholar,” The Musical Quarterly 60 (1974): 257–74.

2/22 Clara Schumann WMSR, #17, 23 HAMW, pp. 141–69 WMM, Chapter 10

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2/27 Luise Adolpha Le Beau WMSR, #17 Le Beau, Sonata for Cello WMM, Chapter 11 and Piano, op. 17 (score) (recording)

3/1 Amy Beach WMSR, #39 HAMW, pp. 198–236 Adrienne Fried Block, “‘A Veritable Autobiography?’ Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45,” The Musical Quarterly 78 (1994): 394–416.

3/6 Teresa Carreño WMSR, #29, 39 HAMW, pp. 237–56 Cécile Chaminade Marcia Citron, Gender and the Musical Canon, rpt. ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), 120–64.

3/8 Lili Boulanger WMSR, #41 HAMW, pp. 275–88 Nadia Boulanger Caroline Potter, “Nadia and Lili L. Boulanger, D’un matin de Boulanger: Sister printemps (score) Composers,” The Musical (recording) Quarterly 83 (1999): 536–56.

3/13 Ethel Smyth WMSR, #24, 46 HAMW, pp. 257–68 WMM, Chapter 12

3/15 Rebecca Clarke “Musicologist Ellen D. Lerner HAMW, pp. 295–315 Interviews Rebecca Clarke, 1978 and 1979,” in The Rebecca Clarke Reader, ed. Liane Curtis, 203–24 (Waltham, MA: Rebecca Clarke Society, 2005).

3/20 Ruth Crawford Seeger WMSR, #48 HAMW, pp. 332–57 WMM, Chapter 15

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3/22 Florence Price Rae Linda Brown, “Lifting the HAMW, pp. 358–64 Veil: The Symphonies of Price, Symphony No. 1 in E Florence B. Price,” in Minor: Second movement, Florence Price: Symphonies Largo, maestoso (score) Nos. 1 and 3, ed. Rae Linda (recording) Brown and Wayne Shirley, xv–xlv (Madison: A-R Editions, 2008).

4/3 Miriam Gideon Bruce Duffie, “Composer HAMW, pp. 378–85 Vivian Fine Miriam Gideon: A HAMW, pp. 422–32 Louise Talma Conversation with Bruce Talma, Variations on “13 Duffie” (18 June 1986; Ways of Looking at a transcribed 2009). Blackbird” (1979 version) Bruce Duffie, “Composer (score) (recording) Vivian Fine: A Conversation with Bruce Duffie” (8 November 1986; transcribed 2012). Bruce Duffie, “Composer Louise Talma: A Conversation with Bruce Duffie” (1 March 1986; transcribed 2009).

4/5 Julia Amanda Perry Helen Walker-Hill, From HAMW, pp. 408–21 Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 93–140.

4/10 Delia Derbyshire Kendra Leonard, “Women Derbyshire (arr. from Ron Daphne Oram Can’t Do That: Delia Grainer), Theme from Else Marie Pade Derbyshire and Electronic Doctor Who (recording) Music,” The Avid Listener (8 Oram (with Ivor Walsworth), December 2014). Contrasts Essconic Daphne Oram, “Looking (recording) Back…to See Ahead,” Pade, Syv Cirkler (recording) Contemporary Music Review 11, nos. 1–2 (1994): 225–28.

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4/12 Grażyna Bacewicz Ann K. McNamee, “Grażyna HAMW, pp. 386–407 Bacewicz’s Second Piano Sonata (1953): Octave Expansion and Sonata Form,” Music Theory Online 0, no. 4 (September 1993).

4/17 Galina Ustvolskaya Maria Cizmic, Performing Pain: Ustvolskaya, Piano Sonata Music and Trauma in No. 6 (score) (recording) Eastern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 67–96.

4/19 Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros, “On Sonic HAMW, pp. 453–56 Meditation,” in Software for People: Collected Writings, 1963–80 (Baltimore: Smith Publications, 1984).

4/24 Presentations 4/26 Read Anne Midgette, “The Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music,” Washington Post (4 August 2017). Using the sign-up sheet on Moodle, select a living woman composer of classical music who interests you; then prepare a short paper and in-class presentation according to the guidelines in the syllabus.