Women are not born to Compose : Female Musical Works from 1750 to 1950

27-29 November 2020, Lucca
CFP Deadline: 5 April 2020
Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto
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Keynote Speakers: Mariateresa Storino (Conservatorio di Musica ‘G. Rossini’, Pesaro), Susan Wollenberg (Oxford University)

The conference aims to investigate the music and the role of women composers from 1750 to 1950.

The programme committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are also welcome:

• Gender and genre: women composersand musical genres

• Women composers’ impacton the development of musical forms and genres

• Analytical andhermeneutic approaches to women’s music

• Virtuosity

• Women composersand their self-beliefin the context of contemporary views on female creativity

• Reflections on women composers’ position in the history of music

• The critical reception of women’sworks

• ‘Heroines of the Risorgimento’: music as a means of conveyingpatriotic and liberal ideals in women’sworks

• Social expectations and possibilities of professional training for women composers

• Women composers’ writings about their music (and that of others)

• How has the social status of women composers been changing along with the transformation of the socio-cultural context?

The official languages of the conference are English, French and Italian. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume.

Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and one page of biography.

All proposals should be submitted by email to conferences@luigiboccherini.org.

For any additional information, please contact:

Dr. Massimiliano Sala

musicologie.org

dimanche 29 septembre 2019

Women are not born to Compose : Female Musical Works from 1750 to 1950