This collection adds to the growing scholarship on early modern women by examining those women's musical activities across a broad spectrum of cultural events and settings. The shared premise
in the papers is that, although women had fewer opportunities for musical production then men, they created numerous outlets for their musical endeavors. The contributors consider the ways
women used music as a means for communicating, for establishing intellectual power and for generating musical tastes. Some of the papers address the economics of music for women. Annotation
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