MUSC 40505 - Women, Music, And Salons

This course is concerned with the contributions of women to the musical traditions of Western Europe and its cultural colonies. Beginning in the sixteenth century with the coteries of patronesses Isabella d’Este and Elisabetta Gonzaga, salons-physical and intellectual spaces for social interaction curated by a host-emerged as exclusive domains in which women could wield influence in the realms of literature, art, philosophy, politics, art, science, and music. Benefitting from the deluge of research published on women and musical salons in the last decade, students will develop cutting-edge tools to engage with the musical salons as spaces of sociability that shaped contemporary discourses and artistic movements. Meeting three times per week as a seminar, students will engage in active discussions based on readings, critical listening, and tactical experiences of the panoply of social activities and performances engendered by salons.

Cr. 3.
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