Masculinity and Western Musical PracticeIan D. Biddle, Kirsten Gibson How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical tradition and how has music intervened in their identity formations? This collection of essays addresses these questions by examining some of the ways in which men, music and masculinity have been implicated with each other since the Middle Ages. |
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
Music and Masculinity in the Middle Ages | 21 |
Music Melancholy and Masculinity in Early Modern England | 41 |
Monteverdi Voicing Virility | 67 |
Haydn and the Consequences of Presumed Effeminacy | 95 |
Virile Music by Hector Berlioz | 113 |
Introduction | 135 |
Masculinity Nationalism | 141 |
Edward Elgar and the Pressures | 161 |
Hellenism the Divine and Ideal Masculinity in Manuel de Fallas | 209 |
Introduction | 227 |
Modernist Investments in | 259 |
Tippetts Aesthetic Views | 279 |
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