LEADER 04759nam 2201021Ia 450 001 9910786240503321 005 20230803025619.0 010 $a0-520-95476-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520954762 035 $a(CKB)2670000000340322 035 $a(EBL)1163753 035 $a(OCoLC)836401269 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000856769 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11425257 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856769 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10817972 035 $a(PQKB)10472710 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155600 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1163753 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30955 035 $a(DE-B1597)520597 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520954762 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1163753 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10681972 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL475691 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000340322 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSovereign feminine$b[electronic resource] $emusic and gender in eighteenth-century Germany /$fMatthew Head 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-27384-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Fictions of Female Ascendance --$t1. Europe's Living Muses: Women, Music, and Modernity in Burney's History and Tours --$t2. "If the pretty little hand won't stretch": Music for the Fair Sex --$t3. Charlotte ("Minna") Brandes and the Beautiful Dead --$t4. An Evening in Tiefurt: Corona Schröter's Die Fischerin and Vegetable Genius --$t5. Sophie Westenholz and the Eclipse of the Female Sign --$t6. Beethoven Heroine: A Female Allegory of Music and Authorship in Egmont --$tConclusion --$tAppendix: Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Two Prefaces to the Fair Sex --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity-a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal-linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, 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 essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender and art. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music. 606 $aGender identity in music 606 $aWomen musicians$zGermany$xHistory$y18th century 610 $a18th century. 610 $a19th century. 610 $aart. 610 $aauthorial autonomy. 610 $abeauty. 610 $abourgeois ideal. 610 $aclassical music. 610 $aclassical. 610 $acommercial culture. 610 $aengaging. 610 $afemale composers. 610 $afemale excellence. 610 $afemale musicians. 610 $afemininity. 610 $afeminocentric values. 610 $afine arts. 610 $agender studies. 610 $agerman states. 610 $aluxury. 610 $amasterworks. 610 $amusic. 610 $amusical canons. 610 $amusical composers. 610 $amusical history. 610 $amusical performers. 610 $amusical. 610 $apatriotism. 610 $aperforming arts. 610 $arefinement. 610 $asensibility. 610 $asex. 610 $asocial issues. 610 $avirtue. 610 $awomens history. 610 $awomens issues. 615 0$aGender identity in music. 615 0$aWomen musicians$xHistory 676 $a780.82/0943 700 $aHead$b Matthew$01524718 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786240503321 996 $aSovereign feminine$93765746 997 $aUNINA