Musical voices of early modern women : many-headed melodies / edited by Thomasin LaMay.
| Other author | LaMay, Thomasin K. editor, contributor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005. |
| Description | xv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Women 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2004008709 |
| ISBN | 0754637425 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML82 .M798 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |