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Part II - Highlighting Women Composers before 1750

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2024

Edited by
Matthew Head  and
Susan Wollenberg
Matthew Head
Affiliation:
King's College London
Susan Wollenberg
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers , pp. 93 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Bain, Jennifer, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bennett, Judith M. and Karras, Ruth Mazo, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bugyis, Katie Ann-Marie. The Care of Nuns: Benedictine Women’s Ministries in England during the Central Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fassler, Margot E. Music in the Medieval West (New York: W. W. Norton, 2014).Google Scholar
Gordon, Matthew and Hain, Kathryn A., eds. Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gottzén, Lucas, Mellström, Ulf, and Shefer, Tamara, eds. Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Suggested Further Reading and Listening

Bertoglio, Chiara, ‘Music and Women’, Chapter 11 in Reforming Music: Music and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), 625–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Artemisia, Cappella, Raphaella Aleotti and the Nuns of San Vito (Tactus, 2005).Google Scholar
Ensemble Laus Concentus, I canti di Euterpe: Composizioni femminili (XVI – XVII secolo) (La bottega discantica, 1998).Google Scholar
Mangeshkar, Lata, Meera Soor Kabira (Saregama, 2001).Google Scholar
Secreta, Musica, Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter (Obsidian, 2017).Google Scholar
Secreta, Musica, Mother, Sister, Daughter (Lucky Music, 2022).Google Scholar

Further Reading

Fontijn, Claire. Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Bembo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Glickman, Sylvia and Schleifer, Martha Furman, eds. Women Composers: Music through the Ages (New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1996).Google Scholar
Kendrick, Robert L. Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moroney, Davitt. ‘Les muses en juppe: The Airs of Anne Madeleine Guedon de Presles’, in Noter, annoter, éditer la musique: mélanges offerts à Catherine Massip, ed. Reynaud, C. and Schneider, H., 213–399 (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2012).Google Scholar
Page, Janet K. Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Vienna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rosand, Ellen. ‘Barbara Strozzi, “virtuosissima cantatrice”: The Composer’s Voice’, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 31/2 (Summer 1978), 241–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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