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Lise Karin Meling Senior Researcher, University of Stavanger Bettina Smith Senior Researcher, University of Stavanger
Keywords: voices of women, music pedagogy, music history, compositions
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Based on results from the midway evaluation of the transnational ERASMUS+ project Voices of Women (KA220-HED-F0575B4D), this paper will discuss how students can become agents of change and transmit a more nuanced view on music histories. The three-year international Erasmus+ project Voices of Women (VOW) started in January 2022 and has students and teachers from Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany as participants. One of the main objectives of VOW is a contribution to the familiarization of higher education students, music and art audiences, and the public, with musical works created by women composers: the performing repertoire from the 19th and 20th century Europe.
It is natural to assume that student knowledge and attitudes are impacted by this lack of exposure. The greater the exposure to women composers, the greater the knowledge. Exposure to the canon, however, does not provide more knowledge of women composers. It is a fact that women’s outputs (e.g. musical compositions) have not received their fair share of attention, analysis, interpretation, or performance. It is a fact that there is an unequal representation of women artists in the classical music world in general as well as in art education and art-historical pedagogies.
VOW will therefor familiarize the participants with this repertoire and by focusing on the VOW repertory, its performance, its analysis and related research and dissemination initiatives in the involved institutions, VOW will achieve a wide-spread “ripple-effect” aimed at a deeper level of inclusivity of all voices as equal contributors to the artistic canon.
Lise Meling holds a BA in Piano Performance and an MA in Musicology from NTNU, Norway and a Doctor of Music in Early Music from Indiana University, USA. She is an Associate Professor of Music at the Faculty of Performing Arts, The University of Stavanger, Norway, where she teaches music history and early music performance and performance practice. Her research projects encompass topics in early music and music and gender: she has looked at the role of female composers and their social status, femininity in popular music and gender in music scholarship. Her latest research focuses on the gendered history of musical instruments, particularly keyboard instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has authored several publications, both scholarly articles as well as textbooks in music history. Meling is active as harpsichord performer for which she has revitalized unknown works by female composers, as well as being an active participant in national and international conferences, lecture recitals, interviews, and radio and TV appearances.
Bettina Smith is a professor of classical singing and performing artist. She has an extensive international career, performing at leading opera houses, festivals, and concert houses around the world. Her wide repertory spans from Medieval to contemporary music, with a special interest for Art Song. She has recorded five highly acclaimed solo CDs for the label LAWO Classics, and for the last one The Artist`s Secret, she was nominated singer of the year 2021 in Germany by Opus Klassik. She leads the ERASMUS+ project Voices of Women, focusing on women composers.