A Report from the First National Congress on Women in Music

01 October 1982 Butler University; Joan Herrenkohl, Diablo Valley College; and Nancy Vedder-Shults, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Nancy B. Reich, Manhattanville College, chaired the session. A decision was made to focus on sources and materials and judging from...

Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 shaped by not only gender, but also the family’s upper-class status and position as converted Jews. [10] See Nancy B. Reich, “The Power of Class: Fanny Hensel and the Mendelssohn Family,” in Women’s Voices Across Musical Worlds, ed. Jane A. Bernstein...

“Shot Into the Air Like a Rocket”: Climax in the Lieder of Alma Mahler

01 May 2023 Abstract The appropriation of musical climax as an act of subversion became a common claim in feminist analysis of music by women composers. The focus on the tension and release in Western classical music has been called out as overtly masculine and...

The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)

01 October 2000 are unavoidably products of culture and of different political climates. 27My discussion draws from the work of Nancy B. Reich and an article by Nancy B. Reich with Anna Burton, "Clara Schumann: Old Sources, New Readings," The Musical Quarterly 70, no....

Using the Music Library

01 October 1978 Baptist Theological Seminary; and Karl Van Ausdal, SUNY-Purchase for sharing their experiences with me. authors: Nancy B. Reich author_ids: 1294 authors: Nancy B. Reich author_ids: 1294

Women, Women's Studies, Music and Musicology: Issues of Pedagogy and Scholarship

01 October 1989 Studies/Women's Status. A project of the CMS Committee on the Status of Women in Music, the Report was edited by Nancy B. Reich, the Committee's chair. Women's Studies/Women's Status provides a wealth of information, which deserves more complete...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I

01 October 1989 Studies," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Baltimore, November 1988. 9Nancy B. Reich, "An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Writings on Women in Music," in CMS Report No.5: Women's Studies/Women's Status...

Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 Abstract The U.S. reception of El Sistema has been, for the most part, enthusiastic, as reflected in numerous media articles and the literature of prominent advocates such as Tricia Tunstall. An analysis of these sources points to a tendency on the...

Music Education in Historical Perspective: Status, Non-Musicians, and the Role of Women

01 October 1992 and Adrienne Fried Block, "The Status of Women in College Music, 1986-1987," in Women's Studies/Women's Status, ed. Nancy B. Reich (Boulder, CO: College Music Society, 1988), 79-158. 22Rumbelow, "Music and Social Groups," 170. 23Walter Salmen, "Social...

Integrating Music by Women into the Music History Sequence

01 October 1985 Without question, specialized university courses on women composers have served and continue to serve vital purposes. Most importantly, they introduce a corpus of excellent music to advanced students, many of whom will become teachers and may share...

Women Conductors on the Orchestral Podium: Pedagogical and Professional Implications

01 October 2008 Introduction Recent discussions about women's experiences in the orchestral profession1 have revealed the gendered politics behind many of the generally accepted norms and customs in the orchestral tradition. With the bourgeoning of feminist...

Incorporating a Writing Skills Program Into a Music History Curriculum

01 October 1979 In Volume Eighteen, No. 1 of SYMPOSIUM, Nancy B. Reich concludes her article on the need of bibliographic instruction to undergraduates with "It is my hope that suggestions, comments, and questions on courses in music bibliography or courses which...

Women and Music: A History, edited by Karin Pendle

01 October 1992 Europe, with a chapter for each major historical period (written by J. Michele Edwards, Pendle, Barbara Garvey Jackson, Nancy B. Reich, and Marcia J. Citron). The next section encompasses nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America (Adrienne Fried...

[i]The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music Since 1900,[/i] edited by Laura Hamer

15 November 2022 well-known feminist musicologists such as Adrienne Fried Block, Marcia J. Citron, Suzanne G. Cusick, Susan McClary, and Nancy B. Reich. Equally important are the numerous sources that provide a voice for women of color, an aspect frequently and...