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Title

Women in music : an anthology of source readings from the Middle Ages to the present / edited by Carol Neuls-Bates.

Publication

Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Neuls-Bates, Carol.

Description

xviii, 400 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subjects

• Women composers
• Women musicians

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-385) and index.

Contents

• 1. Women as Singers in Christian Antiquity -- 2. Music in an Early Community of Women -- 3. Life at a Twelfth-Century Benedictine Convent -- 4. Hildegard of Bingen: Abbess and Composer -- 5. Three Women Troubadours -- 6. Women Among the Minstrels and as Amateur Musicians -- 7. The Renaissance Lady -- 8. Vocal and Instrumental Music Performance at an Italian Convent -- 9. The Rise of Women as Virtuoso Singers -- 10. Francesca Caccini: Singer-Composer -- 11. Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre: Composer and Harpsichordist -- 12. The Venetian Conservatories -- 13. Music as an Accomplishment -- 14. Marianne von Martinez: Composer and Singer -- 15. Maria Theresia von Paradis: Pianist on Tour -- 16. Corona Schroter and Julie Candeille: Two Composers Speak Out -- 17. Clara Schumann: Pianist -- 18. Amy Fay: Pianist -- 19. Lillian Nordica: Operatic Soprano -- 20. Margaret Blake-Alverson: Contralto -- 21. Sissieretta Jones: Soprano -- 22. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel --
• 23. Clara Schumann -- 24. Ethel Smyth -- 25. Luise Adolpha Le Beau -- 26. Cosima Wagner -- 27. The Female Amateur: From Accomplishment to Achievement -- 28. Women as Teachers -- 29. Women as Patrons in the Club Movement -- 30. The Vienna Damen Orchester in New York, 1871 -- 31. Caroline B. Nichols and the Boston Fadette Lady Orchestra -- 32. Camilia Urso on Professional Equity for Women Violinists, 1893 -- 33. Should Women Perform in the Same Orchestra with Men? -- 34. George Upton: A Classic Formulation of Women's Inferiority -- 35. Helen J. Clarke: Regarding Unequal Education in the Past -- 36. Frederick Meadows-White: Regarding the "Great Composer" Aspect of the Question -- 37. Amy Fay: Women Have Too Well Aided Men -- 38. Mabel Daniels: Fighting Generalizations About Women -- 39. A Corollary to the Question: Sexual Aesthetics in Music Criticism -- 40. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: Patron of Chamber Music -- 41. Nadia Boulanger: Teacher of Composers --
• 42. Women's Symphony Orchestras -- 43. American Women Demand "Mixed" Orchestras -- 44. Three Musicians Recall Their Careers: Antonia Brico, Frederique Petrides, and Jeannette Scheerer -- 45. Marian Anderson: Contralto -- 46. Ethel Smyth: "Female Pipings in Eden" -- 47. Carl E. Seashore: "Why No Great Women Composers?" -- 48. Ruth Crawford-Seeger -- 49. Elisabeth Lutyens -- 50. Nancy Van de Vate -- 51. The Women's Philharmonic -- 52. Joan Tower: Composer -- 53. Marcia J. Citron: Musicologist.

ISBN

• 155553239X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1555532403 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95017460

OCLC

• 32469377
• ocm32469377

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries