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A classic in gender studies in music, Marcia J. Citron's
comprehensive, balanced work lays a broad foundation for the study
of women composers and their music. Drawing on a diverse body of
feminist and interdisciplinary theory, Citron shows how the western
art canon is not intellectually pure but the result of a complex
mixture of attitudes, practices, and interests that often go
unacknowledged and unchallenged. Â Winner of the Pauline
Alderman Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music,
Gender and the Musical Canon explores important elements of canon
formation, such as notions of creativity, professionalism, and
reception. Citron surveys the institutions of power, from
performing organizations and the academy to critics and the
publishing and recording industries, that affect what goes into the
canon and what is kept out. She also documents the nurturing role
played by women, including mothers, in cultivating female
composers. In a new introduction, she assesses the book's reception
by composers and critics, especially the reactions to her
controversial reading of Cécile Chaminade's sonata for piano.
 A key volume in establishing how the concepts and
assumptions that form the western art music canon affect female
composers and their music, Gender and the Musical Canon also
reveals how these dynamics underpin many of the major issues that
affect musicology as a discipline. Â
Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice
and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James
Buhler and Hannah Lewis edit in-depth essays from many of film
music's most influential scholars in order to explore fascinating
issues around vococentrism, the voice in cinema, and music's role
in the integrated soundtrack.The collection is divided into four
sections. The first explores historical approaches to technology in
the silent film, French cinema during the transition era, the films
of the so-called New Hollywood, and the post-production sound
business. The second investigates the practice of the singing voice
in diverse repertories such as Bergman's films, Eighties teen
films, and girls' voices in Brave and Frozen. The third considers
the auteuristic voice of the soundtrack in works by Kurosawa, Weir,
and others. A last section on narrative and vococentrism moves from
The Martian and horror film to the importance of background music
and the state of the soundtrack at the end of vococentrism.
Contributors: Julie Brown, James Buhler, Marcia Citron, Eric
Dienstfrey, Erik Heine, Julie Hubbert, Hannah Lewis, Brooke
McCorkle, Cari McDonnell, David Neumeyer, Nathan Platte, Katie
Quanz, Jeff Smith, Janet Staiger, and Robynn Stilwell
Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can
do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by
the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume
advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film
encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of important repertoire
including mainstream film, opera-film, and postmodernist pastiche
are presented. Citron uses Werner Wolf's theory of intermediality
to probe the roles of opera and film when they combine. The book
also refines and expands film-music functions, and details the
impact of an opera's musical style on the meaning of a film.
Drawing on cinematic traditions of Hollywood, France, and Britain,
the study explores Coppola's Godfather trilogy, Jewison's
Moonstruck, Nichols's Closer, Chabrol's La Ceremonie, Schlesinger's
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Boyd's Aria, and Ponnelle's opera-films."
What happens to opera when it's presented on the screen? How does
an opera change when it becomes a movie, a television presentation,
or a video? This book is the first to explore opera and its
treatment on the screen from a musicologist's perspective. Marcia
Citron provides a fascinating history of the nearly 100-year-old
genre, examines landmark works of opera on screen from a variety of
viewpoints, and shows how different electronic media shape the
conception of this art form. The book begins with a comprehensive
survey of the origins and development of screen opera. Citron then
focuses on such significant works as Franco Zeffirelli's Otello,
Francesco Rosi's Bizet's Carmen, Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni,
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Tales of Hoffmann,
Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's Parsifal, Peter Sellars's four opera
productions for television, and the celebrated relay telecast of
Otello from the Royal Opera House in London. The author draws on
ideas from diverse fields, including media studies and gender
studies, to examine issues ranging from the relationship between
sound and image to the place of the viewer in relation to the
spectacle. As she raises questions about divisions between high art
and popular art and about the tensions between live and reproduced
art forms, Citron reveals how screen treatments reinforce opera's
vitality in a media-intensive age.
This first scholarly book on Cecile Chaminade, a popular composer,
pianist, and one of the few women to attain critical acclaim as a
composer in the early twentieth century, contains an extensive
biography drawn from a significant collection of primary sources.
The study presents basic information, including facts not
previously published, on this neglected composer and it offers a
discussion of historical and aesthetic issues inherent in her life
and career as well as observations about her musical style. The
exhaustive bibliography, an annotated listing of her prolific
output, contains a selection of reviews of her compositions and
first performances, and a brief section identifying her prose
works. The up-to-date discography lists every commercially made
recording of her individual works, anthologies, and performances,
and it includes out-of-print releases. This informative book offers
the first detailed presentation of information on the location of
Chaminade musical autographs and first editions. It fills an urgent
need for the basic facts about her life and activities: exactly
what she composed, when and why. It also deals with the nature of
her performing career and documents critical reviews of both her
playing and her compositions. This is the only volume of its kind
on Chaminade and one of the few available on any women composer. It
will be an indispensable resource for musicologists and researchers
of women composers and French music history, as well as a valuable
addition to all university and college music libraries.
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