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- catalog abstract ""Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: "Encroaching on All Man's Privileges" delineates the roles women played in the flourishing music world of late-Victorian and early twentieth-century England and shows how women challenged restrictive gender roles and moved into areas of musical expression previously closed to them. The most famous women musicians were the internationally renowned stars of opera; greatly admired despite their violations of the prescribed Victorian linking of female music-making with domesticity, the divas were often compared to the sirens of antiquity, their irresistible voices a source of moral danger to their male admirers. Their ambiguous social reception notwithstanding, the extraordinary ability and striking self-confidence of these singers - and of pioneering female soloists on the violin, long an instrument permitted only to men - inspired fiction writers to feature musician heroines and motivated unprecedented numbers of girls and women to pursue advanced musical study. Women expressed both their musicianship and their claim to equality by performing in all-female ensembles and contributing their talents to the movement for female suffrage."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12000495.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: "Encroaching on All Man's Privileges" delineates the roles women played in the flourishing music world of late-Victorian and early twentieth-century England and shows how women challenged restrictive gender roles and moved into areas of musical expression previously closed to them. The most famous women musicians were the internationally renowned stars of opera; greatly admired despite their violations of the prescribed Victorian linking of female music-making with domesticity, the divas were often compared to the sirens of antiquity, their irresistible voices a source of moral danger to their male admirers.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Music and the female sphere -- Music and "woman's mission" in late-Victorian philanthropy -- Talents discovered and rewarded: female recipients of music philanthropy -- The new woman and her violin -- Immortal tones: woman as public singer -- Music as a profession for women.".
- catalog description "Their ambiguous social reception notwithstanding, the extraordinary ability and striking self-confidence of these singers - and of pioneering female soloists on the violin, long an instrument permitted only to men - inspired fiction writers to feature musician heroines and motivated unprecedented numbers of girls and women to pursue advanced musical study. Women expressed both their musicianship and their claim to equality by performing in all-female ensembles and contributing their talents to the movement for female suffrage."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "ix, 310 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0312121563 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "780/.82/0942 21".
- catalog subject "ML82 .G55 2000".
- catalog subject "Music England 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Music England 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women musicians England.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Music and the female sphere -- Music and "woman's mission" in late-Victorian philanthropy -- Talents discovered and rewarded: female recipients of music philanthropy -- The new woman and her violin -- Immortal tones: woman as public singer -- Music as a profession for women.".
- catalog title "Musical women in England, 1870-1914 : "encroaching on all man's privileges" / Paula Gillett.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".