Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Feminist Analyses of Music


Beizer, Janet . "Rewriting Ophelia: Fluidity, Madness, and Voice in Louise Colet's La Servante." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 152-165. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "'There was not one lady who failed to shed a tear': Arianna's Lament and the Construction of Modern Womanhood." Early Music 22/1 (1994), 21-32. [laments, Ariadne, Monteverdi]

Dell'Antonio, Andrew. "The Sensual Sonata: Construction of Desire in Early Baroque Instrumental Music." repercussions 1/2 (1992), 52-83.

Dunn, Leslie C. "Ophelia's Songs in Hamlet: Music, Madness, and the Feminine." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 50-64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Fink, Robert. "Desire, Repression, and Brahms' First Symphony." repercussions 2/1(1993), 75-103.

Fuller, Sophie. "The Silence of Violetta." In Violetta and Her Sisters: The Lady of the Camellias: Responses to the Myth, ed. Nicholas John. London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994.

Holloway, Karla F. C. "The Lyrical Dimensions of Spirituality: Music, Voice, and Language in the Novels of Toni Morrison." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture,, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 197-211. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Holsinger, Bruce Wood. "The Flesh of the Voice: Embodiment and the Homoerotics of Devotion in the Music of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)." Signs 19/1(1993), 92-125.

Hisama, Ellie. "Gender, Politics, and Modernist Music: Analyses of Five Compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion Bauer (1887-1955)." Ph.D dissertation, CUNY, 1996.

Hisama, Ellie. "Postcolonialism on the Make: The Music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie and John Zorn." Popular Music 12/ 2 (1993), 91-104.

Hisama, Ellie M. "The Question of Climax in Ruth Crawford's String Quartet, Mvt. 3." In Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth Marvin and Richard Hermann, 285-312. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1995.

Jackson, Timothy L. "Aspects of Sexuality and Structure in the Later Symphonies of Tchaikovsky." Music Analysis 14/1 (1995), 3-25.

Jones, Nancy A. "Music and the Maternal Voice in Purgatorio XIX." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 35-49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Kielian-Gilbert, Marianne. "On Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano: Feminine Spaces and Metaphors of Reading." In Audible Traces: Music, Gender, and Identity, eds. Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley. Zurich: Carciofoli Verlagshaus, 1997.

Killam, Rosemary N. "Calamity Jane: Strength, Uncertainty, and Affirmation." Women of Note Quarterly. 1/3(1993).

Killam, Rosemary. "Feminist Theories--Process and Continuation.Music Theory Online 0/8(1994). [Dolly Parton, Libby Larsen, Joan Tower, music theory]

Kolin, Philip C. "Orpheus Ascending: Music, Race, and Gender in Adrienne Kennedy's 'She talks to Beethoven.'" African American Review 28/2 (1994), 293-304.

Kramer, Lawrence. "The Lied as Cultural Practice: Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe Songs." In Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, by Lawrence Kramer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Kramer, Lawrence. "Performance and Social Meaning in the Lied: Schubert's Erster Verlust." Current Musicology 56(1994), 5-23. [Schubert, Lied, marriage, performance]

Lochhead, Judy. "Joan Tower's 'Wings' and 'Breakfast Rhythms I and II': Some Thoughts on Form and Repetition." Perspectives of New Music 30/1 (1992), 132-156.

McCartney, Andrea. "Inventing images: Constructing and contesting gender in thinking about electroacoustic music." Leonardo music journal 5(1995), 57-66.

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. [cf. reviews]

McClary, Susan. "Narrative Agendas in 'Absolute' Music: Identity and Difference in Brahms's Third Symphony." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 326-344. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Peraino, Judith A. "Courtly obsessions: Music and masculine identity in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan." repercussions 4/2 (fall 1995), 59-85.

Reeve, Katherine. "The Damnation of Faust: The Perils of Heroism in Music." In Berlioz Studies, ed. Peter Bloom, 148-188. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Rhodes, Janet. "The Women's Song: L. Berio's 'Sequenza III.'" The Christian Century 107/32 (1990), 1030-2.

Solie, Ruth A. "Whose life? The Gendered Self in Schumann's Frauenliebe songs." In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, ed. Steven Paul Scher, 219-240. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Straus, Joseph Nathan. The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Tick, Judith. "Dissonant Counterpoint Revisited: The First Movement of Ruth Crawford's String Quartet 1931." In A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock, ed. Richard Crawford, R. Allen Lott, and Carol J. Oja, 405-22. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Tick, Judith. "Ruth Crawford's Proletarian Ricercari." Sonus 15/2 (Spring 1995), 54-79.

Toews, John E. "Memory and Gender in the Remaking of Fanny Mendelssohn's Musical Identity: The Chorale in 'Das Jahr.'" The Musical Quarterly 77/4 (1993), 727-748.

Treadwell, Nina. "The Performance of Gender in Cavalieri/Guidiccioni's Ballo 'O che nuovo miracolo' (1589)." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 55-70.

Waterman, Ellen. "Cassandra's Dream Song: A Literary Feminist Perspective." Perspectives of New Music 32/2 (1994), 154-173.

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