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Francesca Caccini at the Medici court : music and the circulation of power /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cusick, Suzanne G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Series:Women in culture and society.
Subjects:
Caccini, Francesca, > 1587-approximately 1640.
Medici, House of.
Women composers > Italy > Biography.
Feminism and music > Italy.
Music > Italy > Florence > 16th century > History and criticism.
Music > Italy > Florence > 17th century > History and criticism.
Florence (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Figliuola del celebratissimo Giulio Romano
  • "To win the girl"; or, Francesca as object of desire
  • Power, desire, and women among themselves
  • Musica to the Granducato
  • Who was this woman?
  • Voice lessons : introducing the Primo libro delle musiche
  • Being, doing, and allegories of voice
  • After Arianna
  • La liberazione di Ruggiero amid the politics of regency
  • Performance, musical design, and politics in La liberazione di Ruggiero
  • Cataclysms of widowhood
  • Afterlives.