MUL-3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Musicology
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Women and minorities in classical music: classical music has a diversity problem, there is an overwhelming amount of white male composers. In order to be critiqued, music must be performed. It allows people to form opinions about each piece: criticism was relegated to gender-based criticism, rather than purely musical, (cid:862)da(cid:373)(cid:374)ed if (cid:455)ou do, da(cid:373)(cid:374)ed if (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t(cid:863) re(cid:448)ie(cid:449)s of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:449)ork, supremacy of large forms. Large for(cid:373)s (cid:894) (cid:455)(cid:373)pho(cid:374)ies, co(cid:374)(cid:272)ertos, operas(cid:895) (cid:862)hold greater (cid:448)alue(cid:863) tha(cid:374) s(cid:373)aller for(cid:373)s (cid:894)cha(cid:373)(cid:271)er (cid:449)orks, so(cid:374)gs, etc. ) in minds of critics, educators; thus, small works less worthy of canonization: large forms are public, while small forms are private. Consider history, all factors at play in the creation of works: 3. Think about the effect of music rather than just the quality of music: 4. This reinforced what people were allowed to study, and how to study.
