Women-Creators in Church Musical Culture of Middle Ages

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Svetlana V. Ivanova

Abstract

Based upon the series of studies of western musicologists, the author
makes an attempt to fill the gap in the Russian scholarship related to the
history of women-chantlers of the Middle Ages. The author intends to
present the biographies of these highly talented Church songwriters. In
the focus of the study are the most important figures, such as Cassia,
Methilda, Hildegarda of Bingen, Hadveich of Brabant and Blanch of
Castille. The author wishes to recreate the picture of social standing of
these women and to describe the types of their creative work. The author
underlines the fact, that these women have created new genres and new
situations in the practice of church art; they have contributed into the
change of social perception of the role of women in culture.

Keywords: European Church music, creative activity or womencomposers,
women-chantlers, women-songwriters

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How to Cite
Ivanova, S. V. (2009). Women-Creators in Church Musical Culture of Middle Ages. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 5(2), 117–121. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/655
Section
History of Western Music
Author Biography

Svetlana V. Ivanova, Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Candidate of Arts, doctoral student at the Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory

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