Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment by Cypess, Rebecca

Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon...
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Author: Rebecca Cypess
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Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment by Cypess, Rebecca

Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

$186.88

Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

$186.88
Author: Rebecca Cypess
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their musical worlds.

In eighteenth-century Europe and America, musical salons--and the women who hosted and made music in them--played a crucial role in shaping their cultural environments. Musical salons served as a testing ground for new styles, genres, and aesthetic ideals, and they acted as a mediating force, bringing together professional musicians and their audiences of patrons, listeners, and performers. For the salonnière, the musical salon offered a space between the public and private spheres that allowed her to exercise cultural agency.

In this book, musicologist and historical keyboardist Rebecca Cypess offers a broad overview of musical salons between 1760 and 1800, placing the figure of the salonnière at its center. Cypess then presents a series of in-depth case studies that meet the salonnière on her own terms. Women such as Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy in Paris, Marianna Martines in Vienna, Sara Levy in Berlin, Angelica Kauffman in Rome, and Elizabeth Graeme in Philadelphia come to life in multidimensional ways. Crucially, Cypess uses performance as a tool for research, and her interpretations draw on her experience with the instruments and performance practices used in eighteenth-century salons. In this accessible, interdisciplinary book, Cypess explores women's agency and authorship, reason and sentiment, and the roles of performing, collecting, listening, and conversing in the formation of eighteenth-century musical life.

Author: Rebecca Cypess
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/20/2022
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780226817910


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About the Author
Cypess, Rebecca: - Rebecca Cypess is associate dean for academic affairs and associate professor of music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She is the author of Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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