Sovereign feminine : music and gender in eighteenth-century Germany / Matthew Head

Author:: Head, Matthew William
Published:: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Physical Description:: xxi, 326 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Europe's living muses : women, music, and modernity in Burney's History and Tours -- "If the pretty little hand won't stretch" : music for the fair sex -- Charlotte ("Minna") Brandes and the beautiful dead -- An evening in Tiefurt : Corona Schröter's Die Fischerin and vegetable genius -- Sophie Westenholz and the eclipse of the female sign -- Beethoven heroine : a female allegory of music and authorship in Egmont.

Subject(s):

Gender identity in music
Women musicians—Germany—History—18th century
Music—Social aspects—Germany—History—18th century
Music—Germany—18th century—History and criticism

ISBN:

9780520273849 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520273842 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 301-319) and index.

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