Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

01 October 1998 Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...

Oratorical Thought and the Tragédie lyrique: A Consideration of Musical-Rhetorical Figures

01 October 1980 March 4, 1732. 45André Campra, Hésione (Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1700); first performed December 21, 1700. authors: Leslie Ellen Brown author_ids: 1327 authors: Leslie Ellen Brown author_ids: 1327

Carissimi’s [i]Jephte[/i] and Jesuit Spirituality

01 April 2019 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...