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

01 October 1989 on the conference program. The three panelists, James R. Briscoe, Elizabeth Wood, and Susan McClary, and the chair, Susan C. Cook, all have published in a musicological subfield of women's studies often called—for want of a better name—"women in music."...

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...

Early Music Matters: Revitalizing the Survey through a Contextual Approach[sup]1[/sup]

20 September 2020 Pietà: The Woman Musician of Venice Personified,” in Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 134–55. And finally, as we make more of an effort to...

Introducing the Learning Portfolio into Music Theory Core Pedagogy

01 October 2011 Introduction Undergraduate music programs at North American institutions of higher learning typically require music majors to complete successfully a core grouping of theory courses in order to fulfill degree requirements. These courses are considered...

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 Appreciation Materials I

31 October 2000 Sexist Society, ed. Vivian Gornick and Barbara Moran. Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, Introduction: Bright Cecilia, pp. 1-11. Worlds of Music, by Jeff Todd Titon, Chapter 1:The...

Redefining Music Appreciation: Exploring the Power of Music

01 June 2015 Abstract How might we create a world empowered by music? How might we change our culture to accept music as an innate intelligence and assist others in discovering the joy, enchantment, mystery, and power of music in their daily lives? Answers to these...

Celebrating 60 Years of the [i]Symposium[/i] (1961-2021): Learning from our Past

01 May 2021 Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Barry S. Brook, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Ruth Stone, Stephen Blum, David Schulenberg, Vincent Duckles, Susan C. Cook, Clifford Madsen, Claude V. Palisca, William Ennis Thomson, Timothy Rice, Neal Zaslaw, James R. Briscoe, John...

Analysis for Performance: Teaching a Method for Practical Application

02 October 2006 One of the more difficult tasks facing the college music theory teacher is linking analysis with performance. Too often students do not understand the connection between the analytical techniques they learn in theory classes and the decisions they make...