Women In 17th C Flashcards
Usurping the muses: Why were people against female music making?
Against moral and social contradictions
Usurping the muses: Where females expected to have a musical understanding?
Yes but only amateur
Usurping the muses:×When women be able to become professional?
If their family were musicians
Usurping the muses: When women be able to become professional?
If their family were musicians
Usurping the muses: where did female musicians flourish?
Sacred institutions
Usurping the muses: example of social status allowing a female composer
Francesca Caccini was a daughter of a composer and received opportunities other female composers wouldn’t
Usurping the muses: What provided opportunities for women?
Printing presses
Usurping the masses: how did Barbra Strozzi gain musical knowledge?
Access to her fathers centre of musical powe4
Usurping the muses: giullo Strozzi role with Music
Wrote libretto and madrigals
Large part in Venetian Opera
Giulio Strozzi group
Unisonil = musical
Subgroup of the Academia degli Incogniti
Usurping the muses: why was Barbara’s virtue called into question?
Central roll in her fathers gatherings e.g performing
Unmarried woman and musician
Barbra Strozzi music
8 volumes of vocal music
Usurping the muses: Why was Barbra able to publish her music?
Her father controlled the publishing world
First publication = set to her fathers poetry
Stylistic variety of Barbra compositions
Solo and ensemble
Cantatas and arias
Improvisational and organised passages
Sudden changes
Hallmark of Barbra ability
Extended malismatic passages exploiting lower and upper ranges
Streams of pure sound without interruption
What’s interesting about the unknown goddess
Only volume not dedicated to a prominent patron
Meaning of the unknown goddess
Fleeting nature of beauty and life
Consequence of female luxury and self ornamentation
