This dissertation provides the first full-scale musicological study of Stuttgart 95, a thirteenth-century song book, formerly thought to be from the abbey of Weingarten. Upon further examination, it is clear that rather than a single unified corpus of Latin songs, the musical portions are composed of three separate layers. Furthermore, I argue that these layers were best understood as separate entities. This delineation between writing campaigns indicates that the original musical project likely constitutes a mostly intact collection, with only one or two folios missing from the beginning of the codex. Moreover, the song repertoire in the first layer is partially comprised of addenda entered into other Engelberg liturgical manuscripts, mainly at the close of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth century, shortly before the manufacture of Stuttgart 95. I focus, in particular, on the first layer of its musical corpora, arguing that the earliest stratum in this composite manuscript points to the double cloister of Engelberg as a likely provenance. As a collection of addenda, it demonstrates that musicians in Engelberg actively collected pieces that addressed Mary, the community’s patrona. I first discuss the consistent use of majuscule and rubrication to visually highlight the name of Mary amidst its surrounding text. Furthermore, I demonstrate that Mary along with each of these additional saints had liturgical ties to the double house of Engelberg; Mary was the monastery’s patrona, and the additional figures were either especially venerated at Engelberg or were the namesakes for dedicated altars or chapels in joint community’s churches.

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This thesis is an analysis and exploration of the feminist themes present in select chamber music theater works by William Osborne for trombonist Abbie Conant. Before analyzing Osborne's compositions, the author provides crucial background information about the lives and experiences of husband and wife and artistic collaborators William Osborne and Abbie Conant. Specifically, the author addresses the sexism that Conant experienced as a trombonist in the Munich Philharmonic. Osborne composed a new genre of works for Conant to perform as an artistic response to the pain both he and Conant experienced during the thirteen year legal battle with the state of Munich and their desire to create fully integrated musical theater works. The author traces the evolution of Osborne and Conant's collaboration by examining three works within the genre of chamber music theater: Winnie--Osborne's adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days; Miriam: The Chair--Osborne's first completely original work; and Street Scene for the Last Mad Soprano. Through personal interviews with Osborne and Conant, the author became aware of Osborne and Conant's influences from Samuel Beckett as well as the formal structure that Osborne uses in his works, and she traces this structure in each work as a method for understanding and organizing the musical and dramatic events. Since Osborne's chamber music theater works require the performer to play a musical instrument, act, and sing, the author employs balanced musicological, dramaturgical, and theoretical analytical approaches when studying each piece. After addressing the formal and compositional devices that Osborne utilizes in each piece, the author focuses her analysis on the feminist themes that are found in the latter two works: Miriam: The Chair and Street Scene for the Last Mad Soprano, for these two works were written as a direct response to the discrimination that Conant experienced in the Munich Philharmonic. The author provides the transcript from her interview with Osborne and Conant as an appendix to the document.

Following the Revolution of 1959, the Cuban government implemented policy reforms geared towards increasing women's rights. Despite these efforts, however, sexism persists in Cuban society. This difference between rhetoric and reality is reflected in the song genre, nueva trova, which foregrounds a progressive agenda for women's rights but continues to marginalize their participation. Prominent nueva trova performers Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés advocate women's rights in their songs, but their music remains couched in patriarchal structures that prevent women from speaking for themselves. Sara González, one of the first prominent female nueva trova composers, was able to integrate into government-supported trova institutions by adopting a masculine, revolutionary aesthetic, which she then adapted to feminist themes to combat the ideological disparity. Recent performers have split between a more complacent attitude, found in novísima trova, or a direct challenge to the patriarchy centered on an aesthetic of contestation in rap cubano.

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Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991) was a Juilliard-trained cellist whose life and work made an indelible mark on the development of the American avant-garde. In her career, Moorman acted as a performer, collaborator, composer, administrator and muse. She solely founded the inaugural New York Avant Garde Festival, and subsequently directed fifteen of these festivals between 1963 and 1980, the feat for which she is most widely acknowledged today. Yet, her revolutionary performance practice, which blurred the lines between her life, her body, and her work, and brought into focus the dynamics of corporeality, the feminine body, female nudity and sexuality, and gendered politics within the contexts of musical performance, has so far escaped serious consideration in the written histories of the American avant-garde. This dissertation describes the nature of Moorman's practice as one that evolved to become inherently and irrevocably embodied, explores how this approach fell at odds with the pervasive avant-garde philosophies of music, and illustrates how her work troubles even a feminist musicological analysis. Further, through a contemporary critique of Moorman's oeuvre which centralizes the social, cultural, and political implications of her body in performance as integral to the work, this project offers a retrospective visibility to the artist which allows for a reframing of her practice as foundational to the aesthetic development of the postwar musical avant-garde. By way of these efforts, Moorman's legacy is presented as one that is both historically significant and vital to current and future musicological discourse.

Submitted by Luiza Helena Kraemer Francesconi (lufrancesconi@gmail.com) on 2018-09-15T17:23:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação sem transcrições.docx: 318840 bytes, checksum: 37a02a4fe657ac55f79c7f06a87bc887 (MD5) / Rejected by Laura Mariane de Andrade null (laura.andrade@ia.unesp.br), reason: Solicitamos que realize uma nova submissão seguindo as orientações abaixo: - O arquivo da dissertação/tese deve estar em formato .pdf - O item "resumo" deve ser apresentado em folha única. As mesmas regras servem para o item "abstract". Ou seja, o “resumo” deve constar em uma página e o “abstract” na próxima. Caso seja necessário, consulte o modelo em: http://www.ia.unesp.br/Home/Biblioteca/orientacoes-para-a-normalizacao-de-trabalhos-academicos_iaunesp_26_03.pdf Caso haja dúvidas, consulte a biblioteca. Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2018-09-17T17:55:03Z (GMT) / Submitted by Luiza Helena Kraemer Francesconi (lufrancesconi@gmail.com) on 2018-09-17T18:14:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação sem transcrições.pdf: 1924495 bytes, checksum: 814c7f62dbd4d3b3822e9fbc872e5c9c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Laura Mariane de Andrade null (laura.andrade@ia.unesp.br) on 2018-09-17T18:53:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 francesconi_lhk_me_ia.pdf: 1924495 bytes, checksum: 814c7f62dbd4d3b3822e9fbc872e5c9c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-17T18:53:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 francesconi_lhk_me_ia.pdf: 1924495 bytes, checksum: 814c7f62dbd4d3b3822e9fbc872e5c9c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-06 / O objetivo desta dissertação é discutir e investigar a associação de estudos em ópera, em especial dos papéis en travesti, a estudos de gênero. Para tanto, através da minha experiência com esses personagens, realizo questionamentos sobre essa faceta do mundo da ópera e sua relação com as práticas sociais dentro da cultura ocidental. Estabeleço uma revisão histórica dos papéis en travesti, baseada principalmente nos trabalhos de Naomi Andre e Thomas Laqueur, e discorro sobre as teorias de gênero que baseiam este trabalho. Além disso, analiso os resultados de entrevistas semiestruturadas feitas com dez cantoras brasileiras que já interpretaram este tipo de papel, com o intuito de investigar como essas mulheres sentem-se no palco ao interpretar papéis masculinos. Utilizo uma junção de teorias de gênero - em especial a de Judith Butler - à performance em ópera para investigar a subjetividade das cantoras, do público, e também para sugerir uma nova perspectiva de abordagem dos papéis en travesti, a qual poderá ser utilizada por intérpretes, diretores de cena e também em trabalhos futuros por estudiosos da área. / The aim of this dissertation is to discuss and investigate the association of studies in opera, especially of breeches roles, to gender studies. To do so, through my experience with these characters, I raise questions that lead to the study of this facet of the opera world and its relation to social practices within Western culture. I stablish a historical review of breeches roles, based specially on the works of Naomi Andre and Thomas Laqueur, and I discuss the theories of gender that underlie this work. In addition, I analyze the results of semi-structured interviews with ten Brazilian female singers who have performed this type of role, in order to investigate how these women feel on stage when playing male characters. I use a combination of gender theories - especially that of Judith Butler - to the performance in opera to examine the subjectivity of the singers, the public and also to suggest a new perspective of approach of breeches roles in opera, which can be used by interpreters, stage directors and can also be used by opera scholars in future works. / El objetivo de esta disertación es discutir e investigar la asociación de estudios en ópera, en especial de los papeles en calzones, a estudios de género. Para esto, a través de mi experiencia con estos personajes, realizo cuestionamientos sobre esa faceta del mundo de la ópera y su relación con las prácticas sociales dentro de la cultura occidental. Establezco una revisión histórica de los papeles en travesti, basada principalmente en los trabajos de Naomi Andre y Thomas Laqueur, y diserto sobre las teorías de género que basan este trabajo. Además, analizo los resultados de entrevistas semiestructuradas hechas con diez cantantes brasileñas que ya interpretaron este tipo de papel, con el fin de investigar cómo esas mujeres se sienten en el escenario al interpretar papeles masculinos. Se utiliza una combinación de teorías de género -en especial la de Judith Butler- a la performance en ópera para investigar la subjetividad de las cantantes, del público, y también para sugerir una nueva perspectiva de abordaje de los papeles en calzones, la cual podrá ser utilizada por intérpretes , directores de escena y también en trabajos futuros por estudiosos del área.

Situated within deep history, this study explores the auditory and spiritual lives of Paleolithic women. It considers their personal agency in mediating the spiritual power of sound and how doing so contributes to a multifaceted musicality. The theoretical framework involves a wide spectrum of topics, from ways of rethinking the writing of history and reckoning with time, to sound studies and the study of acoustics in ancient sites, to a critical examination through a feminist lens of normative disciplinary scholarship in anthropology and archaeology, religious studies, and musicology. I explore potential audio-visual-lithic relationships for their implications for deepening an understanding of the spiritual aspects of Paleolithic life. Drawing from this interdisciplinary literature, integrative discussions are constructed which when considered collectively, not only provide different types of role models and different criteria pertaining to women's experiences of music-making, but also facilitate the emergence of a more nuanced understanding of Paleolithic spiritual practices. In this women-centric narrative innumerable generations of women's participation as spiritual healers within the shamanic musical paradigm are acknowledged and valued, broadening the parameters of women's cultural heritage and spiritual experience. This expansion can help women today turn away from a compensatory music history perspective that is oriented toward figuring out how to fit into a prescribed androcentric narrative of Western art music and turn towards a more holistic narrative in which women can better consider their lineage(s) on their own terms. It fosters re-conceptualizations of women's musical and spiritual identities by reorienting the timeline, contexts, and definition of women's experiences of music-making as sound-producers and sound-interpreters. This project is intended to provide one possible starting point for new conversations about women in music regardless of one's positionality. From a more inclusive gynocentric vantage point, the toxic self-perpetuating loop which has affected how musicology has thus far been shaped, namely through the undervaluing of women’s musical experiences and the ways that they think and feel about music, is being contested. Ultimately, it is a matter of ownership.