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Gaze of the Listener: English Representations of Domestic Music-Making
2008, Rodopi B.V. Editions
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The gaze of the listener: English representations of domestic music-making
2008, Rodopi
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Ideals : music and gender
Practice : the piano
Representation : the gaze of the listener
Sex and the virginals : gender and keyboards around 1600 ("Muche musike marreth mennes maners" ; "Sweet was musig, sweeter is the layde" ; "Thou, my music" : Shakespeare sonnets)
"Musick in the house, musick in the heart, and musick also in heaven" : the harpsichord (Prescriptions ; Representations)
"Accomplishments, accomplishments, accomplishments" : the piano-forte ("Accomplishments have taken virtue's place" ; Courtship narratives ; Counter-narratives)
"Glorious disability" : the piano and the mid-Victorians (Gender and courtship ; Practice and prescription at home ; Strategies of representation : 'Handel with care')
Triumph and oblivion : the piano after 1880 (Victorian transmutations ; Triumph : passion and professionalism ; Beyond the piano)
Conclusion
References (Primary works ; Secondary works).
Edition Notes
Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Universität Basel, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-249).

