Musicology Direction

Musicology Direction: Comparison on Two Contrasting Readings

Offer a 5,000 word critical comparison of at least TWO contrasting readings that exemplify the concerns of the new musicology.

Suggested Readings for MUMA 720 – Musicology Assignment

·         Bergeron, Katherine and Philip Bohlman, eds. Disciplining Music: Musicology                   and its Canons (1996)

·         Brett, Philip, Wood, Elizabeth and Thomas, Gary C., eds. (1994). Queering the               Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology.

·         Citron, Marcia (1993). Gender and the Musical Canon.

·         Clément, Catherine. Opera, or the Undoing of Women(1999)

·         Cook, Nicholas and Everist, Mark, ed. (1999). Rethinking Music.

·         Cusick, Suzanne. Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the                           Circulation of Power(2009)

·         DeNora, Tia (1996). Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics              in Vienna, 1792-1803.

·         Kramer, Lawrence (1995). Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge.

·         Kramer, Lawrence (1990). Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900.

·         Kramer, Lawrence (2003). Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song.                       Cambridge University Press.

·         Leppert, Richard. The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History                  of the Body(1995)

·         McClary, Susan and Leppert, Richard, eds. (1987). Music and Society: The                        politics of composition, performance and reception.

·         McClary, Susan (1991). Feminine Endings.

·         McClary, Susan (2000). Conventional Wisdom.

·         Pederson, Sanna (2000). 'Beethoven and Masculinity', in Burnham, Scott and

          Steinberg, Michael P. (eds), Beethoven and his World, pp. 313–331.

·         Schwarz, David (1997). Listening Subjects: Music Psychoanalysis, Culture.

·         Solie, Ruth, ed. (1993). Musicology and Difference.

·         Subotnik, Rose Rosengard (1991). Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in               Western Music.

·         Subotnik, Rose Rosengard (1996). Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason                 in Western Society.

·         Van den Toorn, Pieter C. (1996). Music, Politics and the Academy.

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