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- Title
Music-making: a fundamental or a vain accomplishment?
- Authors
Robertson-Kirkland, Brianna E.
- Abstract
The article discusses the social importance of music in women's education throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the opinions of conduct books and novels on the financial and social concerns of music education for women in places such as Great Britain. Topics include how wealthy families equipped their daughters with music skills to ensure a lucrative marriage, and how music education was considered fundamental to maintaining a social pretence for women of those times.
- Subjects
HISTORY of music education; WOMEN'S history; SOCIAL aspects of marriage; MUSIC &; society; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Women's History (2059-0156), 2018, Vol 2, Issue 10, p30
- ISSN
2059-0156
- Publication type
Article