The gaze of the listener
Subtitle: English representations of domestic music-making
By: Regula Hohl Trillini
Series: Word and music studies -- 10
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789042024892
Subjects: Music in literature; Music; Knowledge; History
Notes: Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Universität Basel, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-249).
Table of contents: title: Ideals : music and gender; title: Practice : the piano; title: Representation : the gaze of the listener; title: Sex and the virginals : gender and keyboards around 1600 ("Muche musike marreth mennes maners" ; "Sweet was musig, sweeter is the layde" ; "Thou, my music" : Shakespeare sonnets); title: "Musick in the house, musick in the heart, and musick also in heaven" : the harpsichord (Prescriptions ; Representations); title: "Accomplishments, accomplishments, accomplishments" : the piano-forte ("Accomplishments have taken virtue's place" ; Courtship narratives ; Counter-narratives); title: "Glorious disability" : the piano and the mid-Victorians (Gender and courtship ; Practice and prescription at home ; Strategies of representation : 'Handel with care'); title: Triumph and oblivion : the piano after 1880 (Victorian transmutations ; Triumph : passion and professionalism ; Beyond the piano); title: Conclusion; title: References (Primary works ; Secondary works).