Musical voices of early modern women many-headed melodies /: many-headed melodies. ([2017?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Thomasin LaMay.
• Editors: LaMay, Thomasin K
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 780.82; Women musicians -- Europe; Music -- Europe -- 16th century -- History and criticism; Music -- Europe -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Musiciennes -- Europe; Musique -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique; Musique -- Europe -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique; Music; Women musicians; Vrouwen; Musici; Musikerin; Frau; Musik; Europe; Europa; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351916271; 1351916270
• Related ISBNs: 0754637425; 9780754637424
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.