Gender and the musical canon

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Label

Gender and the musical canon

Statement of responsibility

Marcia J. Citron

Creator

• Citron, Marcia J

Subject

• Kanon
• Canon
• Rezeption
• Vrouwenstudies
• Musik
• Musical canon
• Muziekwerken
• Komposition <Musik>
• Chefs-d'uvre (Musique)
• Sekseverschillen
• Musique de compositrices -- Histoire et critique
• Komponistin
• Feministische filosofie
• Music by women composers -- History and criticism
• Geschlechterforschung

Language

eng

Summary

"Why is music composed by women so marginal to the standard "classical" repertoire? In attempting to answer this fundamental question, this book examines the practices and attitudes that have led to the exclusion of women composers from the received "canon" of performed musical works." "Focusing on the tradition since 1800, Marcia J. Citron makes substantial use of feminist and interdisciplinary theory. After introducing the notion of canon and its role in cultural discourse, she explores important elements of canon formation: creativity, professionalism, music as gendered discourse, and reception. A final chapter provides a critique of many of these ideas with respect to the canon of the university music-history curriculum. Professor Citron shows how an understanding of canon formation illuminates some of the basic issues that affect the discipline of musicology as a whole."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

780/.82

Illustrations

music

Index

index present

LC call number

ML3890

LC item number

.C58 1993

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography