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Women and musical salons in the Enlightenment / Rebecca Cypess.

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A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their musical worlds. In eighteenth-century Europe and America, musical salons--and the women who hosted and made music in them--played a crucial role in shaping their cultural environments...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cypess, Rebecca (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Women musicians > Europe > History > 18th century.
Women composers > Europe > History > 18th century.
Women music patrons > Europe > History > 18th century.
Women music patrons > United States > History > 18th century.
Salons > Europe > History > 18th century.
Salons > United States > History > 18th century.
Music > Europe > 18th century > History and criticism.
Music > United States > 18th century > History and criticism.
Music.
Salons.
Women composers.
Women music patrons.
Women musicians.
Europe.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Musical Examples, and Audio Examples
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Musical Salons as Liminal Spaces:
  • 2. Sensuality, Sociability, and Sympathy
  • 3. Ephemerae and Authorship in the Salon of Madame Brillon
  • 4. Composition, Collaboration, and the Cultivation of Skill in the Salon of Marianna Martines
  • 5. The Cultural Work of Collecting and Performing in the Salon of Sara Levy
  • 6. Musical Improvisation and Poetic Painting in the Salon of Angelica Kauffman
  • 7. Reading Musically in the Salon of Elizabeth Graeme
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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