Listening assignments for works in the Briscoe Anthology can
be found online
through the music library's Variations project.
Week 1 (1/10 and 1/12)
Introduction and Women in Antiquity
Framing Questions
Readings: Selections from Musicology and Difference and
Feminine Endings (Susan McClary)
One-page summary: What questions are raised about women in
music? What questions would you like to raise?
Week 2 (1/17 and 1/19)
The Medieval Woman
Reading: Neuls-Bates, selections 1-6; Bowers and Tick, Chapters 2-3
Listening: Briscoe, Hildegard of Bingen;
Countess of Dia
Musical Autobiography
Prepare a list of women composers and performers in your music collection;
reflect on your collection, noting where women are present and absent;
select a favorite to share with the class.
Week 3 (1/24 and 1/26)
The Renaissance Woman
Reading: Neuls-Bates, 7-9; Austern, in Cecilia Reclaimed, pp.
52-69; Bowers and Tick, Ch. 4
Listening: Briscoe, Anne Boleyn and Maddalena
Casulana
Historiography of Women Musicians
Reading: Choose sections of Arthur Elson
and Sophie Drinker
One-page summary: What are the
different perspectives of these two authors? How do they describe
women musicians? Up until this point, how much of your musical
education has included readings on women musicians? How has the
inclusion or exclusion of women in music history affected your own
knowledge and interest in women composers? How do you think most
people view women as musicians, especially as composers?
Week 4 (1/31 and 2/2)
Court Musicians and the Seventeenth Century
Reading: Bowers and Tick, Chapters 5-6
Listening: Briscoe, Isabella Leonarda
Gender Stereotypes in Music
Rita Steblin, "The Gender Stereotyping of Musical Instruments in the
Western Tradition"
One-page summary: What are the main stereotypes affecting women
in western music? Are any of these stereotypes still apparent in
musical education today? How have you witnessed gender
stereotyping in your own experiences? How might gender stereotypes
also affect men?
Week 5 (2/7 and 2/9)
The Caccinis and Barbara Strozzi
Reading: Neuls-Bates 10; Suzanne Cusick, "Of Women, Music and Power,"
Musicology and Difference, pp. 281-304; Bowers and Tick, Ch. 7
Listening: Briscoe, Francesca Caccini; Barbara
Strozzi
Concepts of Femininity
Linda Austern, "'Alluring the auditorie to effeminancie': Music and
the idea of the feminine in early modern England"
One-page summary: What are some of the concepts associated with
the feminine in Renaissance England? Have any of these ideas
carried over into our time? What are the philosophical origins of
some of these concepts?
Week 6 (2/14 and 2/16)
The Venetian Ospedale and Musical Education
Reading: Neuls-Bates, 12
Feminism in Musical Scholarship
Choose selections from McClary, Feminine Endings and Citron,
Gender and the Musical Canon. One-page summary: Compare and
contrast the selections you read; do you agree or disagree with the
arguments of these scholars? What would be the ideal relationship
between feminism and musical scholarship?
Week 7 (2/21 and 2/23)
Jacquet de la Guerre and Anna Amalie
Reading: Neuls-Bates, 11; Bowers and Tick, Ch. 8
Listening: Briscoe, Jacquet de la Guerre and
Suite in D Minor (1707) tracks 31 and 37; and Briscoe, Anna
Amalie
Gender in Musical Scholarship
Choose selections from Gender, Sexuality and
Early Music and Musicology and Difference. One-page
summary: Compare and contrast these authors' views on gender in music.
Do you agree or disagree with any of their arguments? How do (or have)
perceptions of gender affect(ed) your own education? How do your own
perceptions of gender affect your approach to musical analysis and
performance?
Week 8 (2/28 and 3/2)
Eighteenth-Century Oratorio and Song Composers
Reading: Neuls-Bates 16; Bowers and Tick, Ch. 9
Listening: Briscoe, Maria Margherita Grimani
Midterm Exam
Week 9 (3/7 and 3/9)
Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna
Reading: Neuls-Bates, 14-15
Listening: Briscoe, Marianne von Martinez, Maria Theresa von Paradis
Nineteenth-Century Vocal Music
Reading: Neuls-Bates, 22-23; Bowers and Tick, Ch. 9
Listening: Briscoe, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara
Schumann, “Liebst du um Schönheit”, Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Spring Break: 3/13-3/17
Week 10 (3/21 and 3/23)
Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music
Reading: Bowers and Tick, Ch. 10
Listening: Briscoe, Maria Agata Szymanowska, Louise Farrenc, Clara
Schumann
Presentations
Week 11 (3/28 and 3/30)
America in the Nineteenth Century
Reading: Neuls-Bates, 19-21, 39; Bowers and Tick, Ch. 13
Listening: Briscoe, Amy Beach
Europe, 1880-1918
Reading: Neuls-Bates, 24, 46; Bowers and Tick, Ch. 12
Listening: Briscoe, Cécile Chaminade,
Lili Boulanger, Alma Mahler, Ethel Smyth
Week 12 (4/4 and 4/6)
Twentieth-Century British Composers
Listening: Briscoe, Thea Musgrave, Rebecca Clarke
Presentations
Week 13 (4/11 and 4/13)
Twentieth-Century Continental Europe
Listening: Germaine Tailleferre, Gracyna Bacewicz
Presentations
Week 14 (4/18 and 4/20)
America Since 1920--Reshaping Traditions
Listening: Briscoe, Julia Perry, Ellen Taafe
Zwilich
America Since 1920--Experimental and Serial Music
Reading: Bowers and Tick, Ch. 15; Neuls-Bates
48
Listening: Briscoe, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Vivian
Fine, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros
Week 15 (4/25 and 4/27)
Gender and Musicology/Presentations
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