Women conductors and orchestral musicians – Women as patrons – Women’s music clubs
Reading: Ralph Locke, “Paradoxes of the Woman Music Patron in America”
Listening: A selection of numbers performed by Florence Foster Jenkins
Tasks:
Category Archives: Class3
2/18 Wives, Mothers, and Sisters
2/18: Wives, Mothers, and Sisters – The educations of Nannerl Mozart and Fanny Mendelsson Hensel
Reading: Marion Wilson Kimber, “The ‘Suppression’ of Fanny Mendelssohn: Rethinking Feminist Biography”
Listening: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Piano Trio
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2/4 Did Women Have a Renaissance?
Did women have a Renaissance? – Using iconography
**Meet at back entrance of the Cleveland Museum of Art**
Reading: Karin Pendle, “Musical Women in Early Modern Europe,” in Women & Music: A History, pp. 57¬–69.
See Also: Ross W. Duffin, CWRU Early instruments Database: http://music.cwru.edu/medren/
Tasks:
1/21 Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Cross-Cultural Perspectives – Can a woman beat the drums?
Reading:
Excerpts packet on Blackboard
[Taken from: Ovaborhene I. Idamoyibo, “Let a Woman Beat the Drums: Gender Concepts in African Musical Practice,” African Musicology Online 2, no. 1 (2008), pp. 19–24; Amanda Villepastour, “Amelia Pedroso: The Voice of a Cuban Priestess Leading from the Inside” in Women Singers in Global Context, ed. Hellier, pp. 58-59; Sylvia A. Nannyonga-Tamusuza, Baakisimba: Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda, pp. 1 & 33–36; Elizabeth Sayre, “Cuban Batá Drumming and Women Musicians: An Open Question,” Center for Black Music Research Digest 13, no. 1 (2000).]
Listening/viewing:
Emilio Barreto and Amelia Pedroso, “”Yemayá Reso”
(http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/womensingers/chapter2_Pedroso.shtml)
Ara, “Yanke”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfG0P0Uh8oE
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