Musical voices of early modern women : many-headed melodies / edited by Thomasin LaMay.

Other author LaMay, Thomasin K. editor, contributor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.
Descriptionxv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesWomen and gender in the early modern world
Women and gender in the early modern world. ^A517921
Contents Introduction to the many headed ones. Preliminaries / Thomasin LaMay -- Portrait of the artist as (female) musician / Linda Phyllis Austern -- Women en-voiced. Chivalric romance, courtly love and courtly song: female vocality and feminine desire in the world of Amadis de Gaule / Jeanice Brooks -- Music and women in early modern Spain: some discrepancies between educational theory and musical practice / Pilar Ramos López -- Virtue, illusion, Venezianità: vocal bravura and the early Cortigiana onesta / Shawn Marie Keener -- Strong men, weak women: gender representation and the influence of Lully's "operatic style" on French Airs Sérieux (1650-1700) / Catherine E. Gordon-Seifert -- Women on stage. From whore to Stuart alley: musical Venuses on the early modern English stage / Amanda Eubanks Winkler -- With a sword by her side and a lute in her lap: Moll cutpurse at the fortune / Raphael Seligmann -- La sirena antica dell'Adriatico: Caterina Porri a seventeenth-century Roman Prima Donna on the stages of Venice, Bologna and Pavia / Beth L Glixon -- Serf actresses in the Tsarinas' Russia: social class cross-dressing in Russian serf theaters of the eighteenth century / Inna Naroditskaya -- Women from the convents. The good mother, the reluctant daughter, and the convent: a case of musical persuasion / Colleen Reardon -- "Hired" nun musicians in early modern Castile / Colleen Baade -- Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz and music: Mexico's "tenth muse" / Enrique Alberto Arias -- Women, collections, and publishing. Patronage and personal narrative in a music manuscript: Marguerite of Austria, Katherine of Aragon, and London Royal 8 G.vii / Jennifer Thomas -- Composing from the throat: Madalena Casulana's Primo libro de madrigali, 1568 / Thomasin LaMay -- Princess Elizabeth Stuart as musician and muse / Janet Pollack -- Epilogue: Francesca among women, a '600 gynecentric view / Suzanne G Cusick.
Abstract This collection offers a glimpse at women from home, stage, work, and convent, from many classes and from culturally diverse countries--including France, Spain, Italy, England, Austria, Russia and Mexico--and imagines a musical history centered in the realities of those lives.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004008709
ISBN0754637425 (alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML82 .M798 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold