Musical voices of early modern women : many-headed melodies /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005. |
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| Description: | xv, 454 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women and gender in the early modern world |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5629836 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction To The Many Headed Ones
- Preliminaries
- Portrait of the artist as (female) musician
- Women En-Voiced
- Chivalric romance, courtly love and courtly song: female vocality and feminine desire in the world of Amadis de Gaule
- Music and women in Early Modern Spain: some discrepancies between educational theory and musical practice
- Virtue, illusion, Venezianità: vocal bravura and the early Cortigiana Onesta
- Strong men - weak women: gender representation and the influence of Lully's 'operatic style' on French Airs Sérieux (1650-1700)
- Women On Stage
- From whore to Stuart ally: musical Venuses on the Early Modern English stage
- With a sword by her side and a lute in her lap: Moll Cutpurse at the Fortune
- La sirena antica dell'Adriatico
- Caterina Porri, a 17th-century Roman prima donna on the stages of Venice, Bologna, and Pavia
- Serf actresses in the Tsarinas' Russia: social class cross-dressing in Russian serf theaters of the 18th century
- Women from the Convents
- The good mother, the reluctant daughter, and the convent: a case of musical persuasion
- 'Hired' nun musicians in Early Modern Castile
- Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz and music
- Mexico's 'tenth muse'
- Women, Collections, And Publishing
- Patronage and personal narrative in a music manuscript:
- Marguerite of Austria, Katherine of Aragon, and London Royal 8 G.vii
- Composing from the throat
- Madalena Casulana's Primo libro de madrigali, 1568
- Princess Elizabeth Stuart as musician and muse
- Epilogue: Francesca among women, a '600 gynecentric view
- Index
