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

9780520954762 (ebook) :

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

1 online resource (xxi, 326 pages) : illustrations (black and white), music

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Between about 1770 and 1800 in central and northern German states, female musicians flourished as performers and composers, their achievements celebrated by some contemporary male critics as measuring the progress of musical culture and society from barbarism to civilisation. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century and ultimately erased from the record of musical history by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentialising ideas about the relationship between sex, gender, and art.

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May 06, 2016

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