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Women writing music in late eighteenth-century England : social harmony in literature and performance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ritchie, Leslie, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
Series:Performance in the long eighteenth century : studies in theatre, music, dance.
Subjects:
Women musicians > England > History > 18th century.
Music > Social aspects > England > History > 18th century.
Music by women composers > England > 18th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Discipline, pleasure, and practice
  • Women's occasion for music : the performative continuum & lyrical categories
  • Caritas, or, Women and musically enacted charity
  • Arcadia, or, Women's strategic use of the pastoral
  • Britannia, or, Women and songs of nation and otherness.