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| Foreword to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Featured Compositions and Coordinated Tapes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Medieval and Baroque Periods | |
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| Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): Life in the Medieval Convents | |
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| Francesca Caccini (1587-ca. 1640): The Medici Court of Florence | |
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| Barbara Strozzi (1619-1664): The Venitian Musical Academies | |
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| Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704): The Convent in Novara | |
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| Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1666-1729): The Court of Louis XIV | |
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| The Classical Period | |
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| Anna Amalia, Princess of Prussia (1723-1787): The Court of Frederick the Great | |
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| Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (1739-1807): The Court of Weimar | |
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| Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824): Vienna and Beyond | |
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| The Romantic Period - Songs | |
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| Louise Reichardt (1779-1826): The Romantic Spirit | |
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| Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847): Domestic Music Making | |
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| Josephine Lang (1815-1880): The Public Sphere | |
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| Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896:)Touring Artist and Composer | |
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| Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910): International Recognition | |
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| The Romantic Period and Early Twentieth Century - Instrumental Music | |
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| Jeanne-Louise Dumont Farrenc (1804-1875): Pianist and Composer | |
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| Louise Pauline Marie Heritte-Viardot (1841-1918): Musical Families | |
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| Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944): Chevaliere de la Legion d'Honneure | |
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| Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): The Prix de Rome | |
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| Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944): U.S. Symphonist | |
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| Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979): English Performer and Composer | |
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| Six Living U.S. Composers | |
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| Katherine Hoover (b. 1937): Virtuoso Flutist and Composer | |
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| Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939): The Pulitzer Prize | |
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| Ruth Schonthal (b. 1924): Emigre Composer and Teacher | |
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| Barbara Kolb (b. 1939): New Vistas | |
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| Marga Richter (b. 1926): Chamber Music and Orchestral Composer | |
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| Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945): Pianist, Author, Composer | |
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| Appendix 1: Music Appreciation Textbooks Ranked in Order of Number of Women Composers Mentioned | |
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| Appendix 2: Record Companies Featuring Women Composers | |
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| Appendix 3: An Outline of Western Music from 850 through the 1940s | |
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| Appendix 4: A Selected List of Publishers Featuring Women Composers | |
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| Appendix 5: A Selected List of Twentieth-Century Women Conductors | |
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| Appendix 6: Recordings Available from Leonarda Productions | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Acknowledgments | |