Books written by Susan McClary

Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form

McClary, "offers an analysis of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues."--dust jacket.
Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-century Music

Hames Grantham Turner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 10–30. See also Stephen Orgel, “What Knights Really Want,” in Thinking Allegory Otherwise, ed. Brenda Machosky (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), ...
Towards Tonality: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory

This collection of essays is based on lectures presented during the conference Historical Theory, Performance, and Meaning in Baroque Music, organized by the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory in Ghent, Belgium.
Reading Music: Selected Essays

Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert are presently analyzing these issues with respect to modernist literature,” and Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies documents (perhaps far more thoroughly and enthusiastically than one would wish) the links ...
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

And as Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic demonstrates , many of them reappropriated for their own uses the image of the madwoman for expressly political purposes . 53 For a variety of reasons , there have been few women in ...
Georges Bizet: Carmen

Gilbert , Sandra M. , and Susan Gubar , The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth - Century Literary Imagination . New Haven , 1979 . Gilman , Sander L. , Difference and Pathology : Stereotypes of Sexuality ...
Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression

... that are not dazzl'd in their Understandings, and frighted from their little Witts.30 The comparison of Quaker men's ecstatic vocality with the vaginally inspired prophecy of the Delphic Pythia implied their own vulnerability to ...
Reading Music: Selected Essays

... 260, 274nn40–1, 285 Small, Christopher, 23n25, 242, 270–1n8, 338–9n8 Smart, Mary Ann, 285n9 Smend, Friedrich, 28n30 Smith, Bessie, xv, 218, 244, 246, 249–56, 266, 273nn29&30 “Thinking Blues”, 252–6, 273n29 Smith, Liz, 237n43 Smith, ...
Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form

Then they began to look back to acquaint themselves with Berry's musical ancestors . Concerning this conversion , Clapton said : At first , I played exactly like Chuck Berry for six or seven months . You couldn't have told the ...
Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal

In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance.
The Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music

Approaching Sellars’s theatrical strategies from a musicological perspective, McClary blends insights from theater, film, and literary scholarship to explore the work of one of the most brilliant living interpreters of opera.
Georges Bizet: Carmen

The Handbook concludes with discussions of four films based on the opera. The volume contains a bibliography, music examples, and a synopsis and will be of interest to students, scholars, and operagoers.
Georges Bizet. Carmen

Georges Bizet. Carmen
Railways in Botswana

Railways in Botswana
The Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music

Staging the Music Susan McClary. selves and all their acquaintances dressed. They were Figaro, Susanna, Almaviva, and Cherubino, and so were those who attended the first performances.” Earlier I suggested that this barrage of images ...
Ouverture féministe: Musique, genre, sexualité

2e de couv.: Ouverture féministe est un livre manifeste qui propose une méthode et un cadre de pensée pour aborder la question du genre et de la sexualité en musique.
Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

As was the case with Luzzasco's “Non sa che sia dolore,” the accompaniment for “Dalle più alte sfere” is presented by a four-part instrumental ensemble, written out in full score (reduced here to two staves).
Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form

McClary, "offers an analysis of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues."--Jacket.
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception

This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume - musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists - all challenge the view that music occupies an autonomous aesthetic sphere.
Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal

A study of the transition from modal to tonal music in Western Europe, and the parallel transition from pre-modern to modern sensibilities in Western Europe, using the Italian madrigal as a case study.