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Women and musical salons in the Enlightenment /
"Interest in music sociability during the eighteenth century, including domestic and semi-domestic music-making, has been steadily growing. As scholars have noted, musical salons were crucial in providing a space where women could perform in public, which was otherwise impossible, for the most...
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The University of Chicago Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Musical salons as liminal spaces: salonni<U+fffd>eres as agents of musical culture
- Sensuality, sociability, and sympathy: musical salon practices as enactments of Enlightenment
- Ephemerae and authorship in the salon of Madame Brillon
- Composition, collaboration, and the cultivation of skill in the salon of Marianna Martines
- The cultural work of collecting and performing in the salon of Sara Levy
- Musical improvisation and poetic painting in the salon of Angelica Kauffman
- Reading musically in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme
- Conclusion.