Not to serve in lieu of regular courses of instruction.

Over the past few decades, women have gained warranted recognition within their respective fields. Female composers are no exception. Constantly operating within a man’s world, they offer a unique perspective within the Western Classical Music canon. Yet their music is technically indistinguishable from their male counterparts. This class attempts to reconcile these conflicting facts by recognizing the hardships that female composers underwent while simply using their compositions as examples of various stylistic periods, as would a typical music history class with the “Bach through Brahms” curriculum. This course acts as a survey of the lives and music of composers in the Pre-Baroque, Baroque,Classical, Romantic, and Modern Periods. Major innovators to be studied in depth include Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth, and Undine Moore.

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