Young Man's Fancy: Enlightenment Taxonomy and the Feminization of the Free Musical Fantasia

dc.contributor.advisorGrant, Rogeren_US
dc.contributor.authorWeinstein-Reiman, Michaelen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-29T17:51:18Z
dc.date.available2014-09-29T17:51:18Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-29
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I explicate the linkage between gender and the phenomenology of musical extemporaneity in the Enlightenment. In so doing, I trace the development of the free musical fantasia from its improvisatory roots in the music of courtesans to its codification as a Baroque topos and its eighteenth-century classification in the treatises of philosophers and music theorists. Enlightenment discourses on the free fantasia coincide with the emergence of the fantastic as a literary genre. This association manifests in the construction of the idea of "feminine music as other," signified by an infatuation with technology, the exhibition of talented female performers and automatons in these narratives, and the awareness of the subconscious as a viable wellspring of creative ideas. As such, the urge to rationalize musical expression at this time may be interpreted as an acknowledgement of the limits of Classical semiotics around the year 1800.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18409
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.titleYoung Man's Fancy: Enlightenment Taxonomy and the Feminization of the Free Musical Fantasiaen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Music and Danceen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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