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      Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England
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      Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England

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      Social Harmony in Literature and Performance

      Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England

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      Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England book

      Social Harmony in Literature and Performance
      ByLeslie Ritchie
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2008
      eBook Published 25 October 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315083940
      Pages 280
      eBook ISBN 9781315083940
      Subjects Arts
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      Ritchie, L. (2008). Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315083940

      ABSTRACT

      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 Barth mon, 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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |29 pages

      Introduction

      Composing Themselves: Musical and Social Harmony

      chapter One|26 pages

      Discipline, Pleasure, and Practice

      chapter Two|30 pages

      Women's Occasion for Music: The Performative Continuum & Lyrical Categories

      chapter Three|45 pages

      Caritas; or, Women and Musically Enacted Charity

      chapter Four|38 pages

      Arcadia; or, Women's Strategic Use of the Pastoral

      chapter Five|48 pages

      Britannia; or, Women and Songs of Nation and Otherness

      chapter |4 pages

      Conclusion

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