| Contents |
Middle ages. Women as singers in Christian antiquity -- Music in an early community of women -- Life at a twelfth-century Benedictine convent -- Hildegard of Bingen: abbess and composer -- Three women troubadours -- Women among the minstrels and as amateur musicians -- Renaissance. The Renaissance lady -- Vocal and instrumental music performance at an Italian convent -- The rise of women as virtuoso singers -- Baroque. Francesca Caccini: singer-composer -- Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre: composer and harpsichordist -- The Venetian conservatories -- Classic period. Music as an accomplishment -- Marianne von Martinez: composer and singer -- Maria Theresia von Paradis: pianist on tour -- Corona Schröter and Julie Candeille: two composers speak out -- 1820-1920. Women as concert artists and in opera. Clara Schumann: pianist -- Amy Fay: pianist -- Lillian Nordica: operatic soprano -- Margaret Blake-Alverson: contralto -- Sissieretta Jones: soprano -- Four composers. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- Clara Schumann -- Ethel Smyth -- Luise Adolpha le Beau -- A composer's wife. Cosima Wagner -- Women as amateur performers, music teachers, and music patrons. The female amateur: from accomplishment to achievement -- Women as teachers -- Women as patrons in the club movement -- Women as orchestral musicians. The Vienna Damen Orchester in New York, 1871 -- Caroline B. Nichols and the Boston Fadette Lady Orchestra -- Camilla Urso on professional equity for women violinists, 1893 -- Should women perform in the same orchestra with men? -- The "woman composer question". George Upton: a classic formulation of the theory of women's innate inferiority -- Helen J. Clarke: regarding unequal education in the past -- Frederick Meadows-White: regarding the "great composer" aspect of the question -- Amy Fay: women have too well aided men -- Mabel Daniels: fighting generalizations about women -- A corollary to the question: sexual aesthetics in music criticism -- 1920-1981. A patron and an educator. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: patron of chamber music -- Nadia Boulanger: teacher of composers -- Women in the orchestral field from the 1920s to the 1940s. Women's symphony orchestras -- American women demand "mixed" orchestras -- Three musicians recall their careers: Antonia Brico, Frederique Petrides, and Jeannette Scheerer -- An American pioneer for minorities. Marian Anderson: contralto -- The "woman composer question" revisited. Ethel Smyth: "Female pipings in Eden" -- Carl E. Seashore: "Why no great women composers?" -- Three composers. Ruth Crawford-Seeger -- Elisabeth Lutyens -- Nancy Van de Vate -- 1982-1995. The Women's Philharmonic -- Joan Tower: composer -- Marcia J. Citron: musicologist. |
| Abstract |
The voices of women such as Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, Clara Schumann, and Marian Anderson resonate as they emerge from the wide range of materials in this volume, which includes letters, diaries, poems, novels, and reviews that reveal women's achievements not only as patrons and educators but also as composers and performers. |
| Local note | Little-301628--305131007408W |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-385) and index. |
| LCCN | 95017460 |
| ISBN | 155553239X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1555532403 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
