Young Man's Fancy: Enlightenment Taxonomy and the Feminization of the Free Musical Fantasia

In this thesis, I explicate the linkage between gender and the phenomenology of musical extemporaneity in the Enlightenment. In so doing, I trace the development of the free musical fantasia from its improvisatory roots in the music of courtesans to its codification as a Baroque topos and its eighte...

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Main Author: Weinstein-Reiman, Michael
Other Authors: Grant, Roger
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18409