Tag: Society for Music Theory
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Featured Guest blogger: Musicologists on Fanny Hensel’s songs
Dr. Penny Brandt continues her report on the 2018 joint conference of the American Musicological Society/Society for Music Theory. My favorite session at AMS/SMT this year was the Sunday morning joint session on “The Songs of Fanny Hensel” chaired by R. Larry Todd (Duke University). In this session, ten scholars gave “lightning” presentations describing their…
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Featured Guest Blogger: Could an Academic Conference pass the Bechdel Test?
We welcome Dr. Penny Brandt to Feminist in the Concert Hall! She is a musicologist who recently completed a Ph.D. Dissertation on composer Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo Respighi, and who is known for her leadership role with the Hartford Festival of Women Composers. This past weekend, I attended the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society…