Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help instructors include women and people of color in the typical music history survey course and the foundational music theory classes. This book provides a reconceptualization of the principles that shape the decisions instructors should make when crafting the syllabus. It offers new perspectives on canonical composers and pieces that take into account musical, cultural, and social contexts where women and people of color are present. Secondly, it suggests new topics of study and pieces by composers whose work fits into a more inclusive narrative of music history. A thematic approach parallels the traditional chronological sequencing in Western music history classes. Three themes include people and communities that suffer from various kinds of exclusion: Locales & Locations; Forms & Factions; Responses & Reception. Each theme is designed to uncover a different cultural facet that is often minimized in traditional music history classrooms but which, if explored, lead to topics in which other perspectives and people can be included organically in the curriculum, while not excluding canonical composers.

Horace J. Maxile, Jr. is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Baylor University. His primary interests are the concert music of Black composers, music semiotics, and gospel music. His research has appeared in scholarly journals such as Perspectives of New Music, American Music, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Black Music Research Journal. Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her work centers on issues of race, gender, and class in American popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Her research has appeared in collected editions and scholarly journals including the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Journal of the Society for American Music, American Studies, and Musical Quarterly.

List of Scores List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction - Western Classical Music until 1600 Introduction Vittoria Aleotti, "Hor che la vaga Aurora" The Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Arabic Influence on Western Art Music Bibliography Score/Recording Selected Secondary Sources - Music Between 1600 and 1750 Introduction Manuel de Sumaya, Miserere The Network of Women around J.S. Bach Bibliography Score/Recording Selected Secondary Sources - Music Between 1750 and 1815 Introduction Marianna Martines, Sonata in E Major Sonata in E-Flat Major, H. XVI: 52 by Joseph Haydn: A Study in Private and Public/Masculine and Feminine Bibliography Score/Recording Selected Secondary Sources - Music Between 1815 and 1915 Introduction Harry T. Burleigh, "Through Moanin' Pines," in From the Southland African American Critical Response to Antonin Dvorák and the Problem of American Music Bibliography Score/Recording Selected Secondary Sources - Music after 1915 Introduction Chou Wen-Chung, Suite for Harp and Wind Quintet American Nationalism: Florence Price in Counterpoint with Aaron Copland Bibliography Score/Recording Selected Secondary Sources Index