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​Chapter 1 Deep Listening/Music in Context
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Chicago Defender website; archives contain numerous articles on International Sweethearts of Rhythm
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Radio excerpt featuring International Sweethearts of Rhythm
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Video footage of International Sweethearts of Rhythm
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NPR Interview, WWII Big Bands
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Chapter 2 Medieval Roots/Western Canon
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Hildegard von Bingen free scores in the public domain
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Sound loads slowly, but worth the wait
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Isabella Leonarda Magnificat with score
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Mary Lou Williams archive on NPR
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Chapter 3 World Music, Expanded View ​
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Karin and Kathy Kettler, throat singing explanation and demo
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Kronos Quartet and Tanya Tagaq, non-traditional Inuit throat singing
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Mercedes Sosa (NPR)
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Mercedes Sosa (YouTube channel)
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Homage to Celia Cruz (2003)
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Azucar Negra YouTube, live
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Chapter 4 Court Performers
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(Part I, other parts available by link from this page)
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Kouta recording (traditional geisha "short song")
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Maddalena Casulana scores in public domain
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Concerto delle Donne USC digital scholarship collection; Ferrara focus
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Chapter 5 Baroque/Path to Publication
Caccini
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Show Reel of the Australian Premiere performance of Francesca Caccini's 1628 opera "La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina".
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Elena Bertuzzi - Francesca Caccini "Maria, dolce Maria" P.P. Ciurlia Tiorba Ensemble MusicaVenezia
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Strozzi
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Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) - Cantata "Che si puo fare"
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Ensemble der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
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Barbara Strozzi - Lagrime mie Anna Caterina Antonacci – soprano
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"Amor dormiglione" - Barbara Strozzi
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Soprano: Annalisa Cancellieri
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Viola da gamba: Luca Favoni
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Cembalo: Lorenzo Antinori
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Leonarda
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Sonata X in F, 2 violins, viola da gamba, basso continuo; live performance
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Guerre
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Chapter 6 Classical/Revisiting Vienna
Related to Mozart’s Sponsors and Students
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Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor, 1st movement, K457 on modern grand piano, Brendel
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Written for student and sponsor Teresa von Trattner
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Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major, K. 456
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Written for student and sponsor Barbara Ployer
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This performance by Mitsuko Uchida, on modern grand
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Mozart Piano Concerto No 15 B flat major K 450
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Written for a subscription concert at the Trattnerhof in 1784
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Robert Levin on period instrument
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Nannette Streicher nee Stein, Piano Builder
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Marianna Martines, composer
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Works Written for Vocal Virtuosi Aloysia, Constanze, and Josefa Weber
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Mozart - Aria "Mia speranza adorata" K 416, Mozart Natalie Dessay
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Same artist as on the guided listening list
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Mozart - Aria "Mia speranza adorata" K 416 Sabine Devieilhe, soprano
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Originally written for Aloysia Weber Lange
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Laudamus Te From C minor Mass by Mozart, sung by Anne Sofie von Otter
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Same artist as listening list, originally written for Constanze Weber Mozart
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Laudamus Te From C minor Mass by Mozart, sung by Renee Fleming
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Mozart Die Zauberflöte K620, Metropolitan Opera, with Luciana Serra as Queen of the Night.
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On guided listening example also
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The role was originally written for Josefa Weber Hofer.
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Nannerl Mozart
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Trailer for the film “Mozart’s Sister” Called the "true story" of Nannerl Mozart, but compare this version with reality (see end of chapter 6)
Chapter 7 Romantic Era Composer/Performers
Mendelssohn
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The movement “September, At the River” is in the guided listening section in the textbook
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Trio in d minor Jess-Trio-Wien
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel “Schwanenlied” from 6 Lieder, performed by Dorothea Craxton
Schumann
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Clara Schumann - Piano Concerto a-minor, op.7
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Angela Chang (Piano)/ Women's Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta (Conductor)
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Clara Schumann - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann op. 20
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Performed by Manuela Giardina, on an original 1839 Conrad Graf piano.
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Clara and Robert Schumann owned a piano by Conrad Graf built only one year earlier than the piano played in this recording.
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Chapter 8 American Pop: 1895-1945
​Tin Pan Alley/Vocal Jazz
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“I Love You Truly” - written by Carrie Jacobs Bond
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Elsie Baker recording from 1912
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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong “Can’t We Be Friends? (recording with photos)
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Ella Fitzgerald "How High the Moon" live, 1966, scat singing
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Billie Holiday official commercial site
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1959 live performance, "Strange Fruit" Holiday
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Ada Overton Walker Library of Congress
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Ziegfeld Follies Photography by Alfred Cheney Johnston, the official photographer of the Follies
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Dance
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The “Castle Walk” as done by Vernon and Irene Castle (1915)
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White entertainers who revised Black dance forms and taught them to white Americans
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Country Music Roots
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Chapter 9 Empowered Voices: Gospel and Blues
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​Blues
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R & B/Rock Covers
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Margie Evans: “Mistreated Woman”
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Not mistreating woman, as stated on video! - start at 2:30
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​Chapter 10 Visual Media/Marketing of Performers
Girl Groups, 1960s​
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Click the “Classic Motown” link for photos and sound clips of the “girl groups”
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Ronettes: “Be My Baby,” video compilation featuring changing “look” of the group
Girl Bands
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Leader of the Band/Traditional Rock
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MTV Era and Beyond
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Jhally Dreamworlds Excerpt documentary on advertising/music video/sexuality; note that many college libraries own this resource
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Devo "Whip It" Early music video example; note the woman being whipped
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"Girl in a Country Song" video making fun of sexism in music video industry
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Pop Stars, Movies, Video Albums
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"A Star is Born" Lady Gaga starring in a movie about a singer
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"Bodyguard/Run to You" Whitney Houston starring in a movie about a singer; example of "gaze"filming technique
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Themed Shows
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Pressure Regarding Body Image
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Debra Voight interview on “Good Morning America” on weight pressures on opera singers
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“Browning, David. “Deborah Voigt: Off the Scales.” CBS News (January 29, 2006).
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Contains CBS video footage; accessed May 2, 2008.
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Chapter 11 Changing Gender Roles: Opera/Musicals
Opera
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Handel’s Giulio Cesare with English and Italian subtitles
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Modern staging; note the male voices that would have been sung by castrati
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Puccini’s Madame Butterfly “movie” version
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The movie format may provide a sense of the drama that is more familiar to you; with English subtitles
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Kaija Saariaho: Émilie (excerpt, Finnish National Opera)
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Musicals
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Chapter 12 Segregation/Integration, Instrumental
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1992 feature portrait from CBS Sunday Morning featuring JoAnn Falletta
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“one of the most famous and successful female conductors of our time.”
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JoAnn Falletta news feature on What Matters; 20 years into her career
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Chapter 13 Large-Scale/Experimental Works
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Nadia Boulanger Three Pieces for Cello and Piano (Boulanger taught many famous composers)
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Elliott Carter interview regarding his studies with Nadia Boulanger
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Jennifer Higdon, Viola Concerto Kimberly Sparr, Viola Texas Tech University Symphony Orchestra
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Higdon Violin Concerto Hilary Hahn, Violin
Chapter 14 Instrumental to Jazz
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Pianists/Composers
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Vocal Jazz
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Brass Player Examples
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Big Bands
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Ina Rae Hutton and her Melodears, 1947 film, featuring the “busty blonde bombshell band leader”
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Elderly members of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm discuss the history of women in jazz and the legacy of the Sweethearts.
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Moderated by Sally Placksin (producer of jazz documentaries and oral histories,) and Cathy Hughes (Founder, Radio One)
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More Recent Composer/Arrangers
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Toshiko Akiyosi Big Band YouTube channel
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Chapter 15 Technology
Early Electronic Development
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Columbia-Princeton Music Lab History Page, including photos of early composition studios.
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Includes photos of Pril Smiley and Alice Shields
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Electroacoustic Scholarship
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Producers/Composers/Creators
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Laurie Anderson site; usually has video excerpts available
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Laurie Anderson's home studio quick tour of how Anderson creates some of her "voices"; 1980's era
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“Turbulent,” Shirin Neshat’s 1998 two-screen video installation
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Features Shoja Azari as a male Iranian vocalist and composer Sussan Deyhim as the female vocalist as gender roles are explored
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non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and recording
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DJs
Chapter 16 Marketing/Feminist Platform
​Singer/Songwriters/Feminist Messages in Lyrics
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​Punk/Alternative
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3rd Wave Feminism, 1990s
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Hip Hop Feminism, Early
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https://www.lauryn-hill.com/ website
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Lauryn Hill "To Zion" Live, 1999
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​21st Century
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2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show Jennifer Lopez and Shakira
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https://www.jenniferlopez.com/ Lopez website, note links to non-musical products
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Taylor Swift on the country market with “You Belong with Me”
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Swift switch to “feminist mode” in the pop-oriented album 1989, with “Blank Space”
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https://www.cardibofficial.com/ Cardi B website
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