Making Sense of Music

Susan McClary (Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University; Distinguished Professor Emerita, UCLA) specializes in the cultural criticism of music. Her books include Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality; Georges Bizet: Carmen; Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form; Modal Subjectivities: Renaissance Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal; Reading Music; Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music; Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Expressive Culture; The Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music. She previously taught at University of Minnesota, McGill, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. McClary received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship in 1995, and her work has been translated into at least twenty languages.

• Foreword by Peter SellarsFundamentals: An IntroductionI. Why I Do What I Do1. A Life in Musicology: Stradella and Me2. In Praise of Contingency: The Powers and Limits of Theory3. Evidence of Things Not Seen: History, Subjectivities, Music4. Writing about Music - and the Music of Writing5. The Bodies of Angels6. The Lure of the Sublime: Revisiting Postwar Modernism7. Playing the Identity Card: Of Grieg, Indians, and Women8. The Object/The Objective of Analysis: The Case of Florence PriceII. Messing With Early Music9. Unwashed Masses: Music for the Morning After10. Tumescence and Detumescence in a Monteverdi Madrigal11. Doing the Time Warp in Seventeenth-Century Music12. In the Realm of All the Senses: Analyzing the Music of Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de laGuerre13. Salome in the Court of Queen Christina14. Adorno Plays the WTCIII. Sex and Gender, Redux15. The Classical Closet16. Soprano Masculinities17. Sister Campers18. Kaija Saariaho, Mater19. Mahler Making Love: Mengelberg's AdagiettoIndex

Scholarly and thought provoking... Essential.