Women Performing Music: The Emergence of American Women as Classical Instrumentalists and Conductors

by Beth Abelson Macleod

Book Overview

This book explores the experiences of women from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who pursued careers as public performers, charting a new course in an era when women's musical activities were generally consigned to the parlor. Certain instruments had historically evolved as "appropriate for women," and the flamboyant personalities and extroverted emotionalism of Romantic virtuosos and conductors were the antithesis of those qualities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786409045
• ISBN13: 9780786409044
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher