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Backstage at the Revolution
On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association with the royal court, its special privileges, and the splendor of its performances, the Opera itself was spared, even protected, by Revolutionary officials. Victoria Johnson’s Backstage at the Revolution tells the story of how this legendary opera house, despite being a lightning rod for charges of tyranny and waste, weathered the most dramatic political upheaval in European history. Sifting through royal edicts, private letters, and Revolutionary records of all kinds, Johnson uncovers the roots o...
Hersilia's Sisters
Political and cultural history and the arts combine in this engaging account of 1790s France. In 1799, when the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) exhibited his Intervention of the Sabines, a history painting featuring the ancient heroine Hersilia, he added portraits of two contemporary women on either side of her—Henriette de Verninac, daughter of Charles-François Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and Juliette Récamier, a well-known and admired socialite. Drawing on many disciplines, Norman Bryson explains how such a combination of paintings could reveal the underlying nature of the Directoire, the period between the vicious and near-dictatorial Reign of Terror (1793â...
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
Annotation A sophisticated and groundbreaking book on what women actually did and what actually happened to them during the French Revolution.
Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière
Suisse romande depuis son mariage, mais ayant passé la première moitié de sa vie aux Pays-Bas où le français était devenu très tôt sa langue « naturelle », Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière joue quelque peu les trublions dans nos habitudes académiques. Lire son œuvre – ses lettres, ses romans, ses pamphlets et ses pièces de théâtre – c’est accepter des retouches à notre tableau des Lumières qui n’en ressortira pas indemne ; c’est revoir les limites du champ de la critique littéraire, structuré et hiérarchisé depuis le XIXe siècle en fonction de littératures « nationales ». Bilingue (français et anglais), ce recueil contient des articles basés sur l...
Five Lives in Music
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 ...
Women in Music
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
The Emancipation of Writing
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Sovereign Feminine
In 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 ...
Erard
Erard: A Passion for the Piano shows how the Erard piano played an important and often leading role in the history of the instrument, beginning in the late eighteenth century and continuing into the final decades of the nineteenth.
The Clarinet
Introduction / Jane Ellsworth -- Clarinet Iconography / Eric Hoeprich -- The Chalumeau and Clarinet Before Mozart / Albert R. Rice -- From "Little Trumpet" to Unique Voice : The Clarinet in the Concert Orchestra / Jane Ellsworth -- The Clarinet in Opera Before 1830 : Instrument and Genre Come of Age / Ingrid Pearson -- The Clarinet in Nineteenth-Century Opera / Julian Rushton -- Innovation and Convention in the "Golden Age" of the Clarinet Concerto, ca. 1800-1830 / David Schneider -- Joining the Conversation : The Clarinet Quintet in Classical and Romantic Chamber Music / Marie Sumner Lott -- Important Clarinetists Since 1900 : A Concise Introduction / Jane Ellsworth -- Recreating History? The Early Clarinet in Theory and Practice / Colin Lawson -- The Clarinet in Vernacular Music / S. Frederick Starr.
