Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

- Susan Mcclary

To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessib…

- Susan Mcclary

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal music…

- Susan Mcclary

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the histor…

- Susan Mcclary

Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order.

- Susan Mcclary

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the careful…

- Susan Mcclary

Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium…

- Susan Mcclary