Elizabeth C. French
Assuming elizabeth is required, and c is required, and french is required, the following 22 results were found.
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Abstract Following the end of World War I, Marcelle Soulage (1894-1970) engaged in an intense effort to launch her career as a composer in Paris through performing her music as a pianist at different salons, musical societies, and on the burgeoning...
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Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...
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Deconstructing McClary: Narrative, Feminine Sexuality, and Feminism in Susan McClary's Feminine Endings1 The frustration and excitement of reading Kristeva's writings makes my own relationship to them similar to what she describes as the relation to...
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Review Essay of Books on Medieval Music
The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance, by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 346 p. ISBN 0-521-81870-2. Ein Traum vom Mittelalter, Die Wiederentdeckung mittelalterlicher Musik in...
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The Arts in Higher Education: New Meaning for a New Decade
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1968), p. 51. 13Rollo May, The Courage to Create, pp. 15-16. 14Mahoney, op. cit. authors: Elizabeth C. French author_ids: 1330 authors: Elizabeth C. French author_ids: 1330
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Abstract The literature of the early part of the twentieth-century poses a unique set of pedagogical challenges when introducing it to the undergraduate population. On the one hand, there are elements that continue in the common-practice tradition,...
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Carissimi’s [i]Jephte[/i] and Jesuit Spirituality
Abstract The lament that ends Jacomo Carissimi’s Jephte is frequently anthologized and taught in undergraduate surveys, and is justly famous for its emotional impact. Although it is generally thought to have been composed for performance at the...
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Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory
As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...
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Berg, Strindberg, and D Minor1 Berg's fusion of tonality and atonality is a notable feature of his musical language, and the key of D minor appears with surprising regularity. D minor can be found in various of his early unpublished piano sonatas, in...
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The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...
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The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)
The Woman in the Music 1 (On Feminism as Theory and Practice) At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can...
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Open-Access Music Journals and the Possibility of Global Dialogue[sup]1[/sup]
Abstract Musicians increasingly operate in a global community connected by the internet that has affected performance, composition, and listening habits. Similarly, there is a growing trend of publishing scholarly research “open access,” meaning it is...
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A New Concept in the Teaching of Opera
A traditional course in opera, whether for music or non-music students, is generally based on the standard repertoire of Italian, French, and German works. Such a course tends to focus on the musical score at the expense of the complete story and the...
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Women Composers: Reminiscence and History
The current wave of interest in matters relating to women has sparked a series of projects about women in the arts. Women and Creativity, Women in Music, and other panel presentations have proliferated. For the most part these are still in the inchoate...
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Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy
In 1843, Robert Schumann noted that his highly original if slightly bizarre piano cycles of the 1830s had not endeared him to the public or to his publishers. He regretfully conceded that the financial responsibilities of supporting a wife and family...
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Questioning as an Analytical Tool: Viewing the Score through the Eyes of the Composer
Abstract Always the beautiful answer Who asks a more beautiful question.1Warren Berger, preface to A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). -E.E. Cummings The relationship between...
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[i]Louise Farrenc, 1804-1875: Composer, Performer, Scholar[/i], by Bea Friedland
Louise Farrenc, 1804-1875: Composer, Performer, Scholar, by Bea Friedland. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980. 269 pp. ISBN 0-8357-1111-0. Monographs about famous composers seem to appear every few weeks or so throughout the publishing field and...
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Women, Women's Studies, Music and Musicology: Issues of Pedagogy and Scholarship
Born from the political women's movement of the late 1960s, the academic discipline of women's studies is now twenty years old. In its two decades of existence, the field has generated a tremendous amount of influential scholarship. Almost every issue...
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Music Therapy in Handel's England: Browne's Medicina Musica (1729)
The development of contemporary uses for music in therapy is generally attributed to the twentieth century or even the late nineteenth century; however, a text on the subject was published in 1729. The book, Medicina Musica, or, a Mechanical Essay on...
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[i]Choral Music: A Symposium[/i], edited by Arthur Jacobs
Choral Music: A Symposium. Edited by Arthur Jacobs. Baltimore: Penguin Books, Inc., 1963. [444 p., 16mo; $1.85] As the foregoing pages show, the choral repertory is both older and broader than that of the symphony orchestra or opera house. For most...
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