Musical voices of early modern women : many-headed melodies /
LaMay, Thomasin K.
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to the many headed ones -- Women en-voiced -- Women on stage -- Women from the convents -- Women, collections, and publishing.
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 Gordon-Seifert.
Women on stage. From whore to Stuart ally : 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.
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