Sovereign feminine : music and gender in eighteenth-century Germany

Publication Data

• Title Sovereign feminine : music and gender in eighteenth-century Germany
• Author Matthew William Head
• Publisher University of California Press
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Berkeley
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Gender identity in music
• Women musicians :: Germany :: History :: 18th century
• Music :: Social aspects :: Germany :: History :: 18th century
• 016462878

Sovereign feminine : music and gender in eighteenth-century Germany by Matthew William Head. ISBN 9780520273849. Published by University of California Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.