Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150–1950

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 3-14
“Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne”: The Cloistered Musician in the Middle Ages....Pages 15-38
Jougleresses and Trobairitz: Secular Musicians in Medieval France....Pages 39-61
Women Singers and Women’s Songs in Fifteenth-Century Italy....Pages 62-89
Courtesans, Muses, or Musicians? Professional Women Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Italy....Pages 90-115
The Emergence of Women Composers in Italy, 1566–1700....Pages 116-167
The Voice of Barbara Strozzi....Pages 168-190
Musiciennes of the Ancien Régime....Pages 191-223
Women and the Lied, 1775–1850....Pages 224-248
Clara Schumann....Pages 249-281
Luise Adolpha Le Beau: Composer in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany....Pages 282-303
“Shout, Shout, Up with Your Song!” Dame Ethel Smyth and the Changing Role of the British Woman Composer....Pages 304-324
Passed Away Is the Piano Girl: Changes in American Musical Life, 1870–1900....Pages 325-348
Women’s Orchestras in the United States 1925–45....Pages 349-369
Ruth Crawford Seeger....Pages 370-386
Back Matter....Pages 387-409