Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Canonic issues; 2. Creativity; 3. Professionalism; 4. Music as gendered discourse; 5. Reception; 6. The Canon in practice; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

Examines why women have been excluded from the received 'canon' of performed musical works.

Reviews

'Citron's book is well written and continuously provocative. And she concludes with some useful comments on, as she sees it, the much needed restructuring of the university music-history curriculum.' Music and Letters