WOMEN WRITING MUSIC IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND by Leslie Ritchie, Professor Kathryn Lowerre, Dr. Jane Milling ( 9780754663331 )

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WOMEN WRITING MUSIC IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
SOCIAL HARMONY IN LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE

By:

Leslie Ritchie, Professor Kathryn Lowerre, Dr. Jane Milling

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0754663337

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9780754663331

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

18 July, 2008

Series:

Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance

Pages:

280

Description:

Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, this work examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. It is of interest to scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, and cultural studies.

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Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. She finds instances of and resistance to contemporary perceptions of music as a form of social control in works by Maria Barthelemon, Harriett Abrams, Mary Worgan, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Cowley, and Amelia Opie, among others. Relating women's musical compositions and writings about music to theories of music's function in the formation of female subjectivities during the latter half of the eighteenth century, Ritchie draws on the work of cultural theorists and cultural historians, as well as feminist scholars who have explored the connection between femininity and performance. Whether crafting works consonant with societal ideals of charitable, natural, and national order, or re-imagining their participation in these musical aids to social harmony, women contributed significantly to the formation of British cultural identity.Ritchie's interdisciplinary book will interest scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, eighteenth-century British literature, and cultural studies.

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Includes 21 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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