Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order. — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music…The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within… — Susan McClary Copy Share
Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too… — Susan McClary Copy Share
To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order. — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
![“The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining…” quote by Susan McClary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cc5/susan-mcclary-50001_cadence_the-point-of-recapitulation-in-the-first_1498487.jpg)
