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Description:: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hundreds of Venetian women began musical training in childhood to become professional musicians, known as figlie di coro (daughters of the choir), in the four charitable Ospedali Maggiori. These women overcame childhood poverty and abandonment to awe prestigious guests with their skills and even...
Keyword:: Conservatories, Women Musicians, Charitable Instituions, Sacred Music, Venice Italy, and Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Subject:: Women's studies, Gender studies, and Music history
Creator:: Tonelli, Vanessa
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16064 and etdadmin_upload_902167

Description:: Within scholarship on mid-century Hollywood musicals, celebrity, glamour, and spectacle are commonly included in the conversation about the films themselves. Yet, what happened when these films – which privilege visuality – were adapted into purely aural forms, has not been as deeply analyzed. In this project, I track the cross-media...
Keyword:: Media, Hollywood, Radio, Musical, Star Studies, and Semiotics
Subject:: Dance, Music history, and Film studies
Creator:: Lane O'Brien, Emily
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_902232 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16065

Description:: In the nineteenth century, Jews across Europe entered a period of emancipation, at best a vaguely defined term that indicated the granting of equal civil and political rights, though sometimes conditionally and often incrementally. Concurrent to this, art music was dominated by deep divisions of stylistic and aesthetic approaches to...
Keyword:: musicology, Jewish music, Judaism, Germany, Jews, and 19th century music
Subject:: Judaic studies and Music history
Creator:: Stein, Amanda Ruppenthal
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_796496 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15472

Description:: “Musical Networks in Bergamo and the Borders of the Venetian Republic, 1580–1630,” examines the mediation and circulation of northern Italian music through social and professional networks with an emphasis on Bergamo, a thriving musical center during this period. In so doing, I challenge established narratives of early modern history that...
Keyword:: Early Modern Italy, Sixteenth-Century Music, Seventeenth-Century Music, Giovanni Cavaccio, Bergamo, and Venetian Republic
Subject:: History, European history, and Music history
Creator:: Rosenholtz-Witt, Jason
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_764519 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15270

Description:: This dissertation explores how American television portrayed canonical European classical music in the Cold War era. I analyze televisual negotiations of music-cultural hierarchies to complicate common narratives about the postwar decades as a peak moment of polarity between “high” and “low” culture, and between ideologies of consensus and rebellion. Drawing...
Keyword:: American taste, musical comedy, TV history, classical music, television studies, and video art
Subject:: Art history, Music history, and Film studies
Creator:: Kreutzer, Evelyn
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_762848 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15230

Description:: For much of the twentieth-century, English-language music scholars were reticent to speculate about the origins of music. In recent years, however, the study of music’s evolutionary origins has been revitalized. Resonating Subjects brings a critical-historical perspective to this renewed convergence of music studies and evolutionary science. Through close examinations of...
Keyword:: Edmund Gurney, Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, evolutionary musicology, Victorian music culture, and emotion
Subject:: Music theory and Music history
Creator:: Piilonen, Miriam
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14771 and etdadmin_upload_679879

Description:: The vaudeville remains an oft-overlooked genre of French song that was popularized by Paris’s fairground theaters and street singers on the Pont Neuf. Many histories of French music point to the middle of the eighteenth century as the period when the vaudeville began its rapid disappearance from the city’s musical...
Keyword:: French Revolution, French popular song, France, vaudeville, théâtre de société, and timbres
Subject:: French literature, Theater history, and Music history
Creator:: Harmon, Jenna M
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14645 and etdadmin_upload_662497

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