Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages

Anna Kathryn Grau; Lisa Colton

doi:10.1163/9789004517035

Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages

Anna Kathryn Grau (Editor), Lisa Colton (Editor)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Abstract

This collection of seventeen essays newly identifies contributions to musical culture made by women before 1500 across Europe. You will learn about repertoire from such diverse locations as Iceland, Spain, and Italy, and encounter examples of musicianship from the gender-fluid professional musicians at the Islamicate courts of Syria to the nuns of Barking Abbey in England.

The book shows that women drove musical patronage, dissemination, composition, and performance, including within secular and ecclesiastical contexts, and also reflects on the reception of medieval women’s musical agency by both medieval poets and by modern recording artists.

Contributors are David Catalunya, Lisa Colton, Helen Dell, Annemari Ferreira, Rachel Golden, Gillian L. Gower, Anna Kathryn Grau, Carissa M. Harris, Louise McInnes, Lisa Nielson, Lauren Purcell-Joiner, Megan Quinlan, Leah Stuttard, Claire Taylor Jones, Melissa Tu, Angelica Vomera, and Anne Bagnall Yardley.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill
Number of pages	528
Volume	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004517035
ISBN (Print)	9789004429680
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004517035
Publication status	Published - 26 Aug 2022

Publication series

Name	Brill's Companions to the Musical Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Publisher	Brill
Volume	5

UN SDGs

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SDG 5 Gender Equality

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Colton, L., 26 Aug 2022, Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages. Grau , A. K. & Colton, L. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, Vol. 5. p. 271-296 26 p. (Brill's Companions to the Musical Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe; vol. 5).
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