The second edition of the "milestone" work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages (
College Music Symposium).
This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of
Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America.
A popular university textbook,
Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.

- 528 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations Used in This Book
- Feminist Aesthetics
- Ancient and Medieval Music
- The Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries
- The Nineteenth Century and the Great War
- Modern Music around the Globe
- Women in the World of Music: Three Approaches
- The Special Roles of Women
- General Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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