Transforming women's education : liberal arts and music in female seminaries /
Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women. Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Music in American life.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Philosophies of women's education in the United States
- Beyond an accomplishment: A philosophy of music education
- The dawn of a new era in women's education
- Seminary structure: A comparison
- Curricula: Academic and ornamental
- Music education for a young lady
- Instrumental music at the seminaries
- Singing ladies: Vocal repertoire at the seminaries
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.