At 2/4/2005 10:41 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
>At 10:27 AM 2/4/05 -0500, John Howell wrote: >>Commentaries? In other words, opinions, right? Let me know when >>there are some valid, controlled studies available rather than just >>commentaries. Hey, there might be dissertations waiting to be >>written! > >But wait, it's okay to have opinions about "virtual orchestras" and how >miserable they are, but not about this gender distinction? That's okay. >It's not a fair topic, since this forum is mostly men anyway. There are >papers and dissertations; some are referenced here: >http://hannahbosma.nl/genelmus.htm (by the way, Hannah Bosma doesn't agree >with those gender differences within the music, but does have some critical >points to make about authorship).
This brought to mind a thing that happened when I was in high school. The HS band director also taught music history which I didn't take, but my girl friend did. She told me this story:
The teacher said that before 1900 (1950, something like that) there were no major female composers. This annoyed them greatly, so when he assigned a paper on "a major composer", several of the girls in the class "invented" a female Russian composer who lived in the early 1800s. They all submitted papers based on this fictitious women, complete with dates, repertoire, etc. He was quite taken aback that he had never heard of this "composer" up until he figured out it was a hoax. Good thing that he had a good sense of humor ;-)
Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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