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Jera Petriček
The Conductor Gertrud Herliczka
The conductor Gertrud Herliczka was born 1904 in Vienna and has con-
ducted over 100 concerts with professional orchestras between 1927 and
1939. In writing about her, I am asking myself several questions. What is
the nature of a conductor’s work? How can we describe it in its complexi-
ty? There is another aspect which raises interest: Why does being a woman
on the podium matter? In this paper, I reflect upon the importance of the
visual for a conductor, drawing from the book by the conductor Mark Wig-
glesworth. I observe how Herliczka’s gender poses a challenge for critics,
reviewing her performance in one concert with the Munich Philharmonic
in 1938. Through Theodore Schatzki’s theory of art bundles I approach con-
ducting as a bundle of practices. Schatzki sees conventions as a feature of
an art world, which is inevitably intertwined with other social worlds. One
of the conventions in the classical musical world is a male conductor. This
is also a result of the polarisation of genders, as has been shown by Karin
Hausen. Herliczka’s critics were impressed by her conducting, so we can
suppose she fulfilled the demands of a conductor’s bundle of practices, but
she had to struggle with the prejudices against her gender. This struggle is
still visible in the art world, particularly in the field of conducting.
Keywords: conductor, female conductor, convention, artistic bundles,
visual aspect

Tjaša Ribizel Popič
Exploring Musicological Discourses: A Preliminary Meta-Analysis of Slovenian Scholarly
Articles
This study conducts an exploratory corpus-linguistic meta-analysis in or-
der to determine some prevailing trends in musicological literature pub-
lished across four prominent Slovenian academic journals. The research
aims to provide a dataset and resource for an exploratory analysis of the
dominant themes, linguistic patterns, and shifts in scholarly focus over
time by compiling a corpus of musicological articles. Combining corpus
linguistics with meta-analytic approaches enables a systematic examina-
tion of extensive textual data, providing quantitative insights into the evo-
lution of musicological discourse in Slovenia. The findings illuminate the-
matic and methodological developments within the field, offering valuable
perspectives for researchers and educators interested in the progression of
musicological studies nationally and internationally. In addition, this ap-

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