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  ​Chapter 1 Deep Listening/Music in Context

• Beyoncé website

• Lemonade excerpts

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• Florence Price website

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• Pauline Oliveros website​​

• Deep Listening Institute

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• Chicago Defender website; archives contain numerous articles on International Sweethearts of Rhythm

• Radio excerpt featuring International Sweethearts of Rhythm

• Video footage of International Sweethearts of Rhythm

• NPR Interview, WWII Big Bands

• NPR blog, Women in Jazz

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Chapter 2 Medieval Roots/Western Canon

• Hildegard von Bingen free scores in the public domain

• 21st-century composer/performers The Hildegurls, with excerpts from their “Electric Ordo Virtutum,” based on the work of Hildegard.

  • Sound loads slowly, but worth the wait

• Isabella Leonarda Magnificat with score

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• Mary Lou Williams archive on NPR

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• Libby Larsen site

 

• Sofia Gubaidulina “Seven Words” clip

• Gubaidulina Schirmer site

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• Sara Parkman site

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Chapter 3 World Music, Expanded View ​

• Karin and Kathy Kettler, throat singing explanation and demo

• Kronos Quartet and Tanya Tagaq, non-traditional Inuit throat singing

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• Nnwonkoro - Female Song Tradition of the Akan of Ghana #1

• Nnwonkoro - Female Song Tradition of the Akan of Ghana #2

• Dipo Ceremony  Documentary

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• Miriam Makeba – “Click Song” (Qongqothwane) (Live)

• Makeba singing “Pata Pata” on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1967

• Miriam Makeba - Malaika (Live at AVO Session Basel, Switzerland – 2006, two years before her death)

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• Umm Kulthum ( أم كلثوم ) live; "Al Atlal" (with English subtitles) at the Olympia Théâtre in Paris, November 1967

• Umm Kulthum's concert in Abu Dhabi in the 1970s

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• Mercedes Sosa (NPR)

• Mercedes Sosa  (YouTube channel)

• Mercedes Sosa “Solo Le Pido a Dios” live

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• Celia Cruz (NPR)

• Homage to Celia Cruz (2003)

• Azucar Negra YouTube, live 

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• Angelique Kidjo - "Agolo" official video

• Angélique Kidjo - Afirika (2010 FIFA World Cup™ Kick-off Concert)

• Angelique Kidjo - "Batonga"

• Kidjo website

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Chapter 4 Court Performers

• Sophie Drinker papers

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• Geisha Documentary by the BBC

  • (Part I, other parts available by link from this page)

• Kouta recording  (traditional geisha "short song")

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• Devadasi: Prostitutes of God (VICE Documentary)

• Caste in Traditional Dance (TED talk)

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• PBS Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance materials and sample video link

• PBS Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance film trailer

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• Maddalena Casulana  scores in public domain

• Concerto delle Donne  USC digital scholarship collection; Ferrara focus

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Chapter 5 Baroque/Path to Publication

Caccini

• Free Scores of Works by Francesca Caccini

• Show Reel of the Australian Premiere performance of Francesca Caccini's 1628 opera "La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina".

• Elena Bertuzzi - Francesca Caccini "Maria, dolce Maria" P.P. Ciurlia Tiorba Ensemble MusicaVenezia

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Strozzi

• Free Scores of Works by Barbara Strozzi

• Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) - Cantata "Che si puo fare"

  • Ensemble der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

• Barbara Strozzi - Lagrime mie Anna Caterina Antonacci – soprano

• "Amor dormiglione" - Barbara Strozzi

  • Soprano: Annalisa Cancellieri

  • Viola da gamba: Luca Favoni

  • Cembalo: Lorenzo Antinori

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Leonarda

• Free Scores of works by Isabella Leonarda

• Isabella Leonarda 'Sonata duodecima' YouTube

• Sonata X in F, 2 violins, viola da gamba, basso continuo;  live performance

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Guerre

• Free Scores of Works by Guerre

• Suite in A Minor - composed by Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, performed by Sally Renée Todd

• Excerpts from "Céphale et Procris" Tragédie en musique de Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, 1694 Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth - Oktober 2008

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Chapter 6 Classical/Revisiting Vienna

Related to Mozart’s Sponsors and Students

• Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor, 1st movement, K457 on modern grand piano, Brendel

  • Written for student and sponsor Teresa von Trattner

• Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major, K. 456

  • Written for student and sponsor Barbara Ployer 

  • This performance by Mitsuko Uchida, on modern grand

• Mozart Piano Concerto No 15 B flat major K 450

  • Written for a subscription concert at the Trattnerhof in 1784

  • Robert Levin on period instrument

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Nannette Streicher nee Stein, Piano Builder

• Nannette Streicher nee Stein materials at Beethoven Haus Digital Archives

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Marianna Martines, composer

• Free scores of works by Marianna Martines, public domain

• Marianna Martines - Cantata "Berenice, ah che fai?" (1767)

• Martines - Harpsichord Concerto in E-Major, on period instruments​

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Works Written for Vocal Virtuosi Aloysia, Constanze, and Josefa Weber

• Mozart - Aria "Mia speranza adorata" K 416, Mozart Natalie Dessay

  • Same artist as on the guided listening list

• Mozart - Aria "Mia speranza adorata" K 416 Sabine Devieilhe, soprano

  • Originally written for Aloysia Weber Lange

• Laudamus Te From C minor Mass by Mozart, sung by Anne Sofie von Otter

  • Same artist as listening list, originally written for Constanze Weber Mozart

• Laudamus Te From C minor Mass by Mozart, sung by Renee Fleming

• Mozart Die Zauberflöte K620, Metropolitan Opera, with Luciana Serra as Queen of the Night.

  • On guided listening example also 

  • The role was originally written for Josefa Weber Hofer.

• Mozart Die Zauberflöte K620, with Diana Damrau as Queen of the Night at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden​

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Nannerl Mozart

• 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

• Free Scores for Works of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Das Jahr, written 1841, performed by Olga Andryushchenko, on 1840 Erard fortepiano.

  • The movement “September, At the River” is in the guided listening section in the textbook

• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Trio in d minor Jess-Trio-Wien

• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel “Schwanenlied” from 6 Lieder, performed by Dorothea Craxton

 

Schumann

• Free Scores for Works of Clara Schumann

• Clara Schumann - Piano Concerto a-minor, op.7

  • Angela Chang (Piano)/ Women's Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta (Conductor)

• Clara Schumann - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann op. 20

  • Performed by Manuela Giardina, on an original 1839 Conrad Graf piano.

  • 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

• “I Love You Truly” - written by Carrie Jacobs Bond

  • Elsie Baker recording from 1912

• Sophie Braslau recording of “I Love You Truly” (1928)

• Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong “Can’t We Be Friends?  (recording with photos)

• Ella Fitzgerald "How High the Moon" live, 1966, scat singing

• Billie Holiday official commercial site

• 1959 live performance, "Strange Fruit"  Holiday

 

Stage 

• Hyers Sisters video promo​

• Ada Overton Walker   Library of Congress

• Ziegfeld Follies Photography by Alfred Cheney Johnston, the official photographer of the Follies

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Dance 

• The “Castle Walk” as done by Vernon and Irene Castle (1915)

  • White entertainers who revised Black dance forms and taught them to white Americans

• Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

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Country Music Roots 

• The Carter Family, women in country music

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Chapter 9 Empowered Voices: Gospel and Blues

​Gospel 

• Marion Williams Packin’ Up 

• Little Richard (says he was influenced by Marion Williams)

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• Clara Ward Singers: “Swing Low Chariot”

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• Mahalia Jackson live at a Martin Luther King event

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​Blues 

• Bessie Smith/St. Louis Blues

• Bessie Smith, In the House Blues

• Memphis Minnie’s “When the Levee Breaks”

  • ​Led Zeppelin – “When the Levee Breaks” cover

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R & B/Rock Covers

• Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog”

• Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” cover

• Ruth Brown:  “Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean”

• Margie Evans:  “Mistreated Woman”

  • 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​

• Click the “Classic Motown” link for photos and sound clips of the “girl groups”

• The Shirelles: “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”

• Supremes: Live “Stop, in the Name of Love”

• Ronettes: “Be My Baby,” video compilation featuring changing “look” of the group  

 

 

Girl Bands

• Go Go’s “Our Lips are Sealed”

• Go Go’s “We Got the Beat”

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Leader of the Band/Traditional Rock

• Joan Jett website, with video clips

• Jett Vevo clips of “Bad Reputation” and “I Love Rock and Roll”

• Janis Joplin on YouTube

• Heart website

• Heart "Barracuda"

• Pat Benatar website

• Benatar on YouTube

• Tina Turner website

• Turner on YouTube

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MTV Era and Beyond

• Madonna website

• Madonna, “Material Girl”​

• MTV site

• Jhally Dreamworlds Excerpt  documentary on advertising/music video/sexuality; note that many college libraries own this resource

• Devo "Whip It"  Early music video example; note the woman being whipped

• "Girl in a Country Song"  video making fun of sexism in music video industry

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Pop Stars, Movies, Video Albums

• "A Star is Born" Lady Gaga starring in a movie about a singer

• Lady Gaga “Paparazzi”

• "Bodyguard/Run to You"   Whitney Houston starring in a movie about a singer; example of "gaze"filming technique

• Beyoncé “Pretty Hurts” 

• Investigate the relationship between the movie and music industries

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Themed Shows

• Katy Perry, Super Bowl Half Time Show 2015

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Pressure Regarding Body Image

• Miley Cyrus, “Wrecking Ball” video  a former Disney star, Cyrus re-branded herself

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• Billie Eilish "Bad Guy"

• Eilish on body shaming  short film

 

• Debra Voight interview on “Good Morning America” on weight pressures on opera singers

•  “Browning, David.  “Deborah Voigt: Off the Scales.”  CBS News (January 29, 2006).

  • Contains CBS video footage; accessed May 2, 2008.

 

Chapter 11 Changing Gender Roles: Opera/Musicals

Opera

• Handel’s Giulio Cesare with English and Italian subtitles

  • Modern staging; note the male voices that would have been sung by castrati

 

• Puccini’s La Bohème, 1988 performance (San Francisco Opera / Tiziano Severini) with English subtitles

• Puccini’s Madame Butterfly “movie” version

  • The movie format may provide a sense of the drama that is more familiar to you; with English subtitles

• Kaija Saariaho: Émilie  (excerpt, Finnish National Opera)

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Musicals

• Phantom of the Opera trailer

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• Broadway.com YouTube promo for Wicked with Lindsay Mendez (Elphaba)

• Wicked Excerpt​

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• West End trailer for Miss Saigon, 2015

 

Chapter 12 Segregation/Integration, Instrumental  

• Vienna Philharmonic site

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• JoAnn Falletta site

• 1992 feature portrait from CBS Sunday Morning featuring JoAnn Falletta

  • “one of the most famous and successful female conductors of our time.”

• JoAnn Falletta news feature on What Matters; 20 years into her career

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• Marin Alsop site

• NBC’s Today Show featuring on Marin Alsop “breaking the glass ceiling,” 2007

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• Cleveland Women’s Orchestra site, with links to historical documents

 

• International Alliance for Women in Music site

 

• Madison Scouts site

 

• Cavaliers Drum Corp site

 

• Raging Asian Women (Taiko)

 

Chapter 13 Large-Scale/Experimental Works

• Nadia Boulanger Three Pieces for Cello and Piano (Boulanger taught many famous composers)

• Elliott Carter interview regarding his studies with Nadia Boulanger

 

• Amy Beach collection at the University of New Hampshire

• MacDowell Colony website

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• Florence Price Collection at the University of Arkansas

• Florence Price YouTube

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• Ellen Taaffe Zwilich website 1

• Ellen Taaffe Zwilich website 2

 

• Chen Yi website

 

• Thea Musgrave website

 

• Ruth Crawford Seeger web material compiled by Peggy Seeger

• Library of Congress webcast of Judith Tick’s 2008 lecture on Ruth Crawford Seeger ​

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• Joan Tower website (with audio playlist)

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• Barbara Kolb website (with audio available)

 

• Shulamit Ran website

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• Meredith Monk website, with link to NPR interview\

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• Jennifer Higdon website

• Jennifer Higdon, Viola Concerto Kimberly Sparr, Viola Texas Tech University Symphony Orchestra

• Higdon Violin Concerto  Hilary Hahn, Violin

 

Chapter 14 Instrumental to Jazz

• PBS jazz history presentation (note gender imbalance)

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Pianists/Composers

• Women composers of ragtime works

• Lil Hardin Armstrong YouTube channel

• Mary Lou Williams: Rutgers Online Exhibit with photo gallery and sound 

• Mary Lou Williams YouTube channel

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Vocal Jazz

• Billie Holiday commercial site, with links to historical photos 

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Brass Player Examples

• Melba Liston

• Clora Bryant

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Big Bands

• Ina Rae Hutton and her Melodears, 1947 film, featuring the “busty blonde bombshell band leader”

• International Sweethearts of Rhythm, 1946

• DIVA website, (with soundclips)

• DIVA YouTube channel

• Smithsonian Presentation

  • Elderly members of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm discuss the history of women in jazz and the legacy of the Sweethearts.

  • Moderated by Sally Placksin (producer of jazz documentaries and oral histories,) and Cathy Hughes (Founder, Radio One)

 

More Recent Composer/Arrangers

• Toshiko Akiyosi  NEA honors

• Toshiko Akiyosi Big Band YouTube channel

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• Carla Bley website (must see for creativity)

 

Chapter 15 Technology

Early Electronic Development

• Website of Lydia Kavina, leading theremin performer; contains video footage

• Columbia-Princeton Music Lab History Page, including photos of early composition studios.

  • Includes photos of Pril Smiley and Alice Shields

• Pauline Oliveros website

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Electroacoustic Scholarship

• Selected Discography of Women’s Electroacoustic Music compiled by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner

• Gender Issues in Electrovocal music, including reflections on Madonna

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Producers/Composers/Creators

• Roma Baran/Vivian Stoll Productions

• Laurie Anderson site; usually has video excerpts available

  • Laurie Anderson “O Superman” 

  • Laurie Anderson's home studio  quick tour of how Anderson creates some of her "voices"; 1980's era

• “Turbulent,” Shirin Neshat’s 1998 two-screen video installation

  • Features Shoja Azari as a male Iranian vocalist and composer Sussan Deyhim as the female vocalist as gender roles are explored

• Kaija Saariaho Website

• Skywalker Sound, connected with sound engineer Leslie Ann Jones

• Website for mixer/producer/engineer Trina Shoemaker

• Women's Audio Mission website

  • non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and recording

DJs

• DJ Kuttin Kandi, San Diego May 8, 2010

• Kuttin Kandi’s YouTube Channel

 

Chapter 16 Marketing/Feminist Platform

​Singer/Songwriters/Feminist Messages in Lyrics

• Joan Baez website

• Baez YouTube Channel

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• Joni Mitchell website

• Mitchell YouTube Channel

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• Dolly Parton official website

• Parton singing “Coat of Many Colors” on the Porter Wagoner show in 1974

• Reba McEntire website

• Reba McEntire – “Going Out Like That”

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​Punk/Alternative

• Yoko Ono website

• X-Ray Spex

• X-Ray Spex on YouTube

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3rd Wave Feminism, 1990s

• Spice Girls “Wannabe”  "Girl Power" example

• Bikini Kill "Rebel Girl" "Riot grrrl" example

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Hip Hop Feminism, Early

• Queen Latifah website

• Queen Latifah "Ladies First"

• Queen Latifah "UNITY"

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• https://www.lauryn-hill.com/  website

• Lauryn Hill "Doo Wop That Thing"

• Lauryn Hill "To Zion" Live, 1999
   

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​21st Century

• 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show   Jennifer Lopez and Shakira

• https://www.jenniferlopez.com/  Lopez website, note links to non-musical products

• https://www.shakira.com/    

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• Taylor Swift on the country market with “You Belong with Me”

• Swift switch to “feminist mode” in the pop-oriented album 1989, with “Blank Space”

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• Cardi B  "I LIke It"

• https://www.cardibofficial.com/   Cardi B website

 

General

• Researching women and music at the Library of Congress

• Special Collections at the Library of Congress, including links to information on Amy Beach, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and others