Marcia Judith Citron (born 1945) is an American professor of musicology at
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...
in
Houston
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, Texas. She is a leading musicologist specializing in issues regarding women and gender, opera and film.
Life and career
Marcia Citron graduated from
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus.
Being New York City's first publ ...
with a BA in 1966 and from
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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with an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1971. She has been recognized with the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Distinguished Service Professor of Musicology award, and has received grants from
National Endowment for the Humanities
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, the German Academic and Exchange Service and Rice University. She is a member of the American Musicological Society and has served as committee chair.
Works
Selected book publications include:
*''Letters of
Fanny Hensel
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel (as well as Fanny Mendelssohn He ...
to
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...
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Cécile Chaminade
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a ...
: A Bio-Bibliography''
*''Gender and the Musical Canon''
*''Opera on Screen''
She has also published numerous articles dealing with music history and analysis.
References
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1945 births
Living people
American music educators
American women music educators
American musicologists
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Rice University faculty
Brooklyn College alumni
American women academics
American biographers
American women biographers
Writers from Texas
American women musicologists
21st-century American women