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

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In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Head, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
Temas:
1700-1799
Gender identity in music.
Women musicians > Germany > History > 18th century.
Music > Social aspects > Germany > History > 18th century.
Music > Germany > 18th century > History and criticism.
Identité de genre dans la musique.
Musiciennes > Allemagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Musique > Aspect social > Allemagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Musique > Allemagne > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
Gender identity in music
Music
Music > Social aspects
Women musicians
Musik
Musikerin
Frau
Geschlechtsunterschied
Germany
Deutschland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Fictions of Female Ascendance
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Two Prefaces to the Fair Sex.

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