Women in Music

This subject is not offered in 2009.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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A study of the ways in which gender and sexual difference have been effected in the making and composing of art music. Beginning with medieval women, this subject explores the social and cultural context of women composers and performers from Hildegard to Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth, Alma Mahler, Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Andre Greenwell, as well as ideas of the "angel in the house" and the New Woman. It problematises women's bodies, women's voices and women's place in society, examining music by and about women as well as representations of women's music in art, literature and film.

Four short seminar reports, two due in week 6, two at the end of semester (40%); essay of 2500 words due in week 10 (60%).

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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