| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 400 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-385) and index. |
| Contents |
Women as singers in Christian antiquity -- Music in an early community of women -- Life at a twelfth-century Benedictine convent -- Hildegard of Bingen : abbess and composer -- Three women troubadours -- Women among the minstrels and as amateur musicians -- The Renaissance lady -- Vocal and instrumental music performance at an Italian convent -- The rise of women as virtuoso singers -- Francesca Caccini : singer-composer -- Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre : composer and harpsichordist -- The Venetian conservatories -- Music as an accomplishment -- Marianne von Martinez : composer and singer -- Maria Theresia von Paradis : pianist on tour -- Corona Schroter and Julie Candeille : two composers speak out -- Clara Schumann : pianist -- Amy Fay : pianist -- Lillian Nordica : operatic soprano -- Margaret Blake-Alverson : contralto -- Sissieretta Jones : soprano -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- Clara Schumann -- Ethel Smyth -- Luise Adolpha le Beau -- Cosima Wagner -- The female amateur : from accomplishment to achievement -- Women as teachers -- Women as patrons in the club movement -- The Vienna Damen Orchester in New York, 1871 -- Caroline B. Nichols and the Boston Fadette Lady Orchestra -- Camilla Urso on professional equity for women violinists, 1893 -- Should women perform in the same orchestra with men? -- George Upton : a classic formulation of the theory of women's innate inferiority -- Helen J. Clarke : regarding unequal education in the past -- Frederick Meadows-White : regarding the "great composer" aspect of the question -- Amy Fay : women have too well aided men -- Mabel Daniels : fighting generalizations about women -- A corollary to the question : sexual aesthetics in music criticism -- Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge : patron of chamber music -- Nadia Boulanger : teacher of composers -- Women's symphony orchestras -- American women demand "mixed" orchestras -- Three musicians recall their careers : Antonia Brico, Frederique Petrides, and Jeannette Scheerer -- Marian Anderson : contralto -- Ethel Smyth : "Female pipings in Eden" -- Carl E. Seashore : "Why no great women composers?" -- Ruth Crawford-Seeger -- Elisabeth Lutyens -- Nancy Van de Vate -- The Women's Philharmonic -- Joan Tower : composer -- Marcia J. Citron : musicologist. |
| Subject |
Women musicians.
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Women composers.
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| Added Author |
Neuls-Bates, Carol.
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| ISBN |
1555532403 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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155553239X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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