Susan McClary

(1946) Musicologist

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Susan McClary is a musicologist, best known for Feminine endings.

Quick Facts About Susan McClary

Born: October 2, 1946
Profession: Musicologist
Notable works: Feminine endings

About Susan McClary

Susan Kaye McClary is an American musicologist and music theorist associated with "new musicology". Noted for her work combining musicology with feminist music criticism, McClary is professor of musicology at Case Western Reserve University.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Susan McClary

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the…

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Articulation

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Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as…

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Activity

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To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about…

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Body

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Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order.

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Order

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The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in…

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Cadence

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Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means…

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Channeling

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Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and…

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Believe

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