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Usurping the muses: Why were people against female music making?

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Against moral and social contradictions

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Usurping the muses: Where females expected to have a musical understanding?

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Yes but only amateur

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Usurping the muses:×When women be able to become professional?

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If their family were musicians

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Usurping the muses: When women be able to become professional?

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If their family were musicians

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Usurping the muses: where did female musicians flourish?

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Sacred institutions

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Usurping the muses: example of social status allowing a female composer

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Francesca Caccini was a daughter of a composer and received opportunities other female composers wouldn’t

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Usurping the muses: What provided opportunities for women?

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Printing presses

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Usurping the masses: how did Barbra Strozzi gain musical knowledge?

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Access to her fathers centre of musical powe4

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Usurping the muses: giullo Strozzi role with Music

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Wrote libretto and madrigals

Large part in Venetian Opera

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Giulio Strozzi group

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Unisonil = musical

Subgroup of the Academia degli Incogniti

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Usurping the muses: why was Barbara’s virtue called into question?

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Central roll in her fathers gatherings e.g performing

Unmarried woman and musician

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Barbra Strozzi music

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8 volumes of vocal music

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Usurping the muses: Why was Barbra able to publish her music?

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Her father controlled the publishing world

First publication = set to her fathers poetry

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Stylistic variety of Barbra compositions

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Solo and ensemble
Cantatas and arias
Improvisational and organised passages
Sudden changes

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Hallmark of Barbra ability

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Extended malismatic passages exploiting lower and upper ranges
Streams of pure sound without interruption

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What’s interesting about the unknown goddess

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Only volume not dedicated to a prominent patron

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Meaning of the unknown goddess

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Fleeting nature of beauty and life

Consequence of female luxury and self ornamentation

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Example of Barbra having complete control over her writing

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Stops the motion on ‘blessed death’

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What is there a strong sense of in her writing

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Compositional control and skill
Wit
Sensitivity to poetic and dramatic nuance

20
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Example of gentle parody of womens self adornment by Barbra

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Moralita amoroso

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Example of erotix interweaving of two voice by Barbra

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Begli occhi

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Example of analytic view of love expressed by Barbra

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Cor donato, Cor rubato

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Usurping the muses: How does Strozzi interpret her texts?

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Rich vocabulary of contemporary musical devices

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Usurping the masses: what’s unique about Barbra?

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Penetrated the male-dominated circles of the venetian academies and presented a unique model of female eloquence

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Bible Paul Gospel

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Let women keep silent in churches

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Example of two books constraining women’s roles

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Baldassare Castiglione, the Book of the Courtier

John Essex, The Young Ladies conduct

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Examples of women as syrens

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King Arthur by Henry Purcell

The Fair Singer by Andrew Morrell

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Opportunities in Italy

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Convents, Ospedali, Court

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Vivaldi Ospedali

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Ospedale della Pieta

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Francesca Caccini

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First women to write Opera

Refused to let daughter become a musician

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La Liberaziane Di Ruggiero

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Francesca Caccini
Comic opera performed in four scenes
Celebrate the visit of prince Wladyslaw of Poland
Stile recitativo
No Castrato
6 sops, 2 altos, 7 tenors, 1 bass, 3 recorders

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Barbara Strozzi

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Considered a Courtisan

8 volumes of music = most prolific composer of the c.

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Primo libro de madrigali

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Barbra Strozzi

Duet from first book of madrigals

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Moralita amarosa

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Strozzi
Solo singer and harpsichord
Unknown goddess

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Begli Occhi

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Unknown goddess
Duet
Sop. And mezzo. Sop
Baroque guitar

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France

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Fewer composers due to central court system

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Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

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Family of musicians
Patroned by Louis after she played at court aged 5
Dedicated pieces to Louis XIV

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Cephale et Pocris, Tragedie mise en musique

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Elisabeth Jacquet
7 publications
Unusually wide range of genres
Ranked amongst the most important men

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Violin sonata no. 3 in F major

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Elisabeth Jacquet
Paris 1707
5 movements

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Harpsichord suite No. 1 in Dm

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Elisabeth Jacquet
Prelude is v ornamented and chordal
Allemande has lots of trills and is scalic

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England

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No evidence of female composition

Heirachal society

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3 examples of female composers in England

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Mary ‘Moll’ Davis
Arabella Hunt
Anne Bracegirde
All had aristocratic or Royal links

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Summary

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Opportunities constrained by social roles

Depend on country but never the same as men

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