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Gender and the Musical Canon
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Gender and the Musical Canon Hardcover - 1993 - 1st Edition

by Marcia J. Citron


From the publisher

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 as a whole.

Details

  • Title Gender and the Musical Canon
  • Author Marcia J. Citron
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 319
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 1993-07
  • ISBN 9780521392921 / 0521392926
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.83 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.11 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Musical canon, Music by women composers - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92002468
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.82