by schenk | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Last year in our survey class I struggled with how to react to the traditional telling of music history–one that too often focuses on, and thereby values, the output of a select group of mostly dead white male composers to the dismissal of the music of composers...
by henry | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Paris in the 1920s has always seemed to be an exciting and rich time period to me, and I was thrilled with the chance to devote an entire semester to the study of its music. Throughout our research and discussion of the compositions, composers, impresarios, and...
by hex | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Nationalism is a major theme that stands out from all of my papers written for this class. My first paper on French pianist and pedagogue Marguerite Long addresses gender issue primarily, as Long experienced discrimination and obstacles during her promotion in Paris...
by devries | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
This semester, my papers have been centered around what seems like a random collection of topics: female composer Germaine Tailleferre, the Concerts Colonne, and Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon (its premiere and how course themes relate). Some...
by Andrew Horton | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
The theme that has resonated with me most powerfully this semester is that of the different lenses through which we view history. We discussed a handful of lenses closely related to the topic of music in 1920s Paris (namely, class, race, nationality, sexuality, and...
