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Sovereign feminine

Head, Matthew William.

Sovereign feminine music and gender in eighteenth-century Germany / [electronic resource] : Matthew Head. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (xxi, 326 pages :) illustrations, music ;

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 301-319) and index.

Europe's living muses : women, music, and modernity in Burney's History and Tours -- "If the pretty little hand won't stretch" : music for the fair sex -- Charlotte ("Minna") Brandes and the beautiful dead -- An evening in Tiefurt : Corona Schröter's Die Fischerin and vegetable genius -- Sophie Westenholz and the eclipse of the female sign -- Beethoven heroine : a female allegory of music and authorship in Egmont.

9780520954762


Music--History and criticism.--Germany--18th century
Music--Social aspects--History--Germany--18th century.
Women musicians--History--Germany--18th century.
Gender identity in music.


Electronic books.

ML82 / .H44 2013

780.82/0943