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Author:

Head, Matthew William.

Title:

Sovereign feminine : music and gender in eighteenth-century Germany / Matthew Head.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0520273842 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520273849 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)816655452

LCCN:

2012043355

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)