Sovereign Feminine. Matthew Head

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      Examples 1, 3, and 4 are reproduced with permission from Journal of the American Musicological Society 52, no. 2 (1999): 211, 225, and 229.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Head, Matthew William.

      Sovereign feminine : music and gender in eighteenth-century Germany / Matthew Head.

      pages cm

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-520-27384-9 (cloth : alk. paper)

      eISBN 9780520954762

      1. Gender identity in music. 2. Women musicians—Germany—History—18th century. 3. Music—Social aspects—Germany—History—18th century. 4. Music—Germany—18th century—History and criticism. I. Title.

      ML82.H44 2013

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      For my mother, Carol Ann Head (née Scott),and her feeling for beauty

      What better can temper manly rudeness, or strengthen and support the weakness of man, what so soon can assuage the rapid blaze of wrath, what more charm masculine power, what so quickly dissipate peevishness and ill-temper, what so well can while away the insipid tedious hours of life, as the near and affectionate look of a noble, beautiful woman? What is so strong as her soft delicate hand? What so persuasive as her tears restrained? Who but beholding her must cease to sin?

      J.C. LAVATER, PHYSIOGNOMY (1775–1777)

      CONTENTS

      List of Illustrations

      Preface and Acknowledgments

      Introduction: Fictions of Female Ascendance

      Appendix: Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Two Prefaces to the Fair Sex

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      FIGURES

      TABLES

      MUSICAL EXAMPLES