Ritchie, Leslie: Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England (Ashgate Books) Hardback

Contents

Contents: Introduction: composing themselves: musical and social harmony; Discipline, pleasure, and practice; Women's occasion for music: the performative continuum and lyrical categories; Caritas; or, women and musically enacted charity; Arcadia: or, women's strategic use of the pastoral; Britannia: or women and songs of nation and otherness; Conclusion; Bibliography. Index.