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Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present
Cecelia Hopkins Porter
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Description for Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present
Paperback. Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, this book brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 black and white photographs, 11 musical examples. BIC Classification: AV; BGF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, Five Lives in Music brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers. Elegantly guiding readers through the Thirty Years War in central Europe, elite courts in Germany, urban salons in Paris, Nazi control of Germany and Austria, and American musical life today, as well as personal experiences of marriage, motherhood, and widowhood, Cecelia Hopkins Porter provides valuable insights into the culture in which each woman was active.
Porter begins with the Duchess Sophie-Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lueneberg, a harpsichordist who also ... Read moreProduct Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
468g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252080098
SKU
V9780252080098
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99-1
About Cecelia Hopkins Porter
Cecelia Hopkins Porter is a classical music critic for The Washington Post and the author of The Rhine as Musical Metaphor: Cultural Identity in German Romantic Music.
Reviews for Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present
"A welcome contribution to the literature on women in music. Richly contextualized and engagingly written, Porter's book offers portraits of five women who lived lives full of music and whose music should enliven our concert halls more."
Anne MacNeil, author of Music and Women of the Commedia dell'Arte in the Late Sixteenth Century "An engaging book that draws readers ... Read more
Anne MacNeil, author of Music and Women of the Commedia dell'Arte in the Late Sixteenth Century "An engaging book that draws readers ... Read more