Susan McClary (born 2 October 1946) is a musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the "New Musicology". She is noted for her work combining musicology and feminism.
Perhaps her best known work is Feminine Endings (1991; ISBN 0-8166-4189-7). ("Feminine ending" is a musical term once commonly used to denote a weak phrase ending or cadence.) The work covers these topics:
The publication of Feminine Endings (now in its second edition) is...
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Susan McClary (born 2 October 1946) is a musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the "New Musicology". She is noted for her work combining musicology and feminism.
Perhaps her best known work is Feminine Endings (1991; ISBN 0-8166-4189-7). ("Feminine ending" is a musical term once commonly used to denote a weak phrase ending or cadence.) The work covers these topics:
The publication of Feminine Endings (now in its second edition) is considered to have been a significant step in the acceptance and proliferation of feminist musicology within academia. Largely because of this influence, McClary was a 1995 winner of a MacArthur Fellowship.
In Feminine Endings, McClary describes, among other things, how sonata form may be interpreted as sexist or misogynistic and imperialistic, and that, "tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to...
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