Watch this video, and listen to the following assigned pieces:
Clara Josephine Schumann (13 September 1819 — 20 May 1896)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Quatuor Ebène: Quatuor en Mib majeur
Amy Beach (1867 – 1944)
Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 (1893)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927)
Cello Sonata D major op. 17 – II. Andante tranquillo
Subtopic 1: Western Female Composers and Their Works
Q1
True or False: According to the assigned reading, in general, women composers had to contend with negative attitudes toward their work that men did not encounter.
Q2
Choose only one option: As decisions pertaining to nuns adopted by the _____ were implemented and enforced by successive popes and local church officials, some convents were forced to restrict severely their cultivation of polyphonic music.
A, Council of Amsterdam
B, Council of Berlin
C, Council of Glasgow
D, Council of Trent
E, Council of Lisbon
Q3
Fill in the blank: According to the assigned reading, women have been composers since the Middle Ages—–_______(who) in the twelfth century.
Q4
Historically speaking, women’s activities in music have shifted from primarily public sphere to domestic or private sphere.
Q5
On the whole, women musicians in this century have behaved more self-consciously than their predecessors.
Q6
By and large, fifteen-century Italians appear to have believed that a woman’s place was in the __?
- church
- working place
- home
- nature environment
- Battlefields
Q7
In the fifteenth century, songs written from a woman’s point of view are distinguished from those for men either by range or by musical style.
Q8
True or false: The growth of private music instruction contributed significantly to the development of women composers in the late sixteenth and seventeenth century in Italy.
Q9
Fill in the blank: For each of Reichardt, Hensel, and Schumann, ______(musical style) constitute a principle genre in overall oeuvre.
Q10
Fill in the blank: The joint concert by _____(who) and Joseph Joachim usually included solos for each artist and sonatas for violin and piano.
Subtopic 2: Western Female Composers’ Inluences
Q1
Fill in the blank: _____ (who) compositions revealed a musical conceptualization expressed according to traditional structural and stylistic principles.
Q2
Fill in the blank: ____(who) achieved ALL of the following: (1) attained international recognition as an opera composer; (2) as a feminist, she actively took part in the suffragist movement.
Q3
Video question: _____(who) said the following: “Composing gives me great pleasure. There is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness when one lives in a world of sound. ”
Q4
Video question: ____(who) was discouraged by her husband and said the the following: “ I have been firmly taken by the arm and led away from myself”
Q5
Video question: whose husband bought her a cookery book as a wedding present?
Q6
Video question: which female composer once entered an argument with Archbishop and got banned from singing as the punishment？
Q7
True or false: Sophia Giustina Corri was among the women musicians in Dussel clan.
Q8
True or false: Female pianists abounded in the Victoria era.
Q9
True or false: in the seventeenth century noble women wrote simple songs for their families and friends to perform.
Q10
Who was influenced by the constant stream of notables passing through Berlin salon?
A, Clara Schumann
B, Le Beau
C, Ethel Smyth
D, Fanny Hensel
E, Alma Mahler
Subtopic 3: Appreciation of Works
Answer the same question for the following 4 video clips: What is the musical theme that conveyed in this work ?
A, Classical
B, Baroque
C, Romantic
D, impressionism
E, Modernism