Conducting a Liberatory Pedagogy: Empowering the Music Apprentice as a Knowledge Producer in the Classroom

01 March 2022 Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...

Women Conductors on the Orchestral Podium: Pedagogical and Professional Implications

01 October 2008 "Difference and Power in Music." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, edited by Ruth A. Solie, 46-65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Sinclair, Amanda. Doing Leadership Differently. Melbourne:...

Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future

01 October 1993 Contemplating Music, and his "How We Got Into Analysis and How to Get Out," Critical Inquiry 7 (1980): 311-331. Also see Ruth A. Solie, "The Living Work: Organicism and Musical Analysis," Nineteenth Century Music 4 (1980): 147-56. 8"Innovation, Choice,...

Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience

01 October 1999 Tick, "Charles Ives and Gender Ideology," in Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth A. Solie (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 83-106. 23The character George in Ives's didactic story "George's...

Deconstructing McClary: Narrative, Feminine Sexuality, and Feminism in Susan McClary's Feminine Endings

01 October 1993 and Other Dualities of Music History," in Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth A. Solie (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 23-45; Paula Higgins, "Women in Music, Feminist Criticism, and Guerrilla...

Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance

01 October 1993 Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance1 Introduction In their common endeavor to make and deliver personal interpretations about musical compositions, the activities and preoccupations of analysts and performers of music intersect...

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

01 October 2000 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...

The Limits of Metaphorical Interpretation

01 October 1999 and Difference in Brahms's Third Symphony," in Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth A. Solie (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 326-344. 13Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, ed. Gretel Adorno...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I

01 October 1989 An Impregnable Taboo?" Contact 31 (1987), 6. I wish to thank David Lasocki for calling my attention to this article. 18Ruth A. Solie, review of Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman, by Nancy B. Reich, 19th Century Music 10 (1986): 75. 19Susan...

Ethnomusicology, Music Curricula, and the Centrality of Classical Music

01 October 2004 1992), pp. 137-155; and Ellen Koskoff, "Miriam Sings her Song: The Self and the Other in Anthropological Discourse," in Ruth A. Solie, ed., Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship (Berkeley: University of California Press,...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: II

01 October 1990 In Part I of this article (which appeared in College Music Symposium 29 [1989], 81-92), I assessed the impact of feminist methods and perspectives on the field of American musicology and summarized what we have learned from the various studies about...

[i]Nineteenth-Century Music[/i], by Carl Dahlhaus

01 October 1990 review of Die Musik des 19. Jahrhunderts, Journal of the American Musicological Society 36 (1983): 532-43. authors: Ruth A. Solie author_ids: 1183 authors: Ruth A. Solie author_ids: 1183

[i]Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860[/i], edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr; [i]Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music[/i], by Cyrilla Barr

01 October 1999 Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860, edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 357 pp. ISBN 0-520-08395-4. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music, by...

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

01 October 1989 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...

A Look at Women’s Status in Music Academia

01 October 2011 In the early twentieth century, Australia’s first female music doctorate, Ruby Davy (1883 - 1949), was denied academic appointment. Australia’s academic institutions refused to hire her although she had been an excellent student and had received...