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Article: A woman's (theoretical) work. (Towards A Feminist Music Theory)
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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While still a graduate student in music theory, I began to notice that informal, figurative language conveyed and encouraged a vital engagement with music in ways that I missed in many analytical texts. I came to this realization from a typical music-theoretical position of skepticism about the value of metaphorical language that was shaken by a student in an analysis class. Initially enthusiastic and talkative about her sense of how pieces go, she eventually became silent and sullen. I attributed the change to my discouraging her from using language that I found imprecise and embarrassingly personal, but that she apparently found vividly informative.
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