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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Author’s Note
Introduction: “One would like to know”
Part 1. Social Diversity Among Amateur Women Musicians
1. “The circle in which you move”: Gentility, Music, and White Women
2. “Colored girls under the control of colored teachers”: Gentility, Music, and Women of Color
Part 2. Repertory
3. “‘Home, Sweet Home!’ with brilliant variations”: Melody
4. “I have no time to tell you now half the enjoyment these operas have given us”: Opera as Cultural Capital
Part 3. Scientific Music and Professional Musicians
5. “Distinguished success … in teaching Music as a science”: Genteel Women Scientists
6. “Of that ilk”: Foreign Music Teachers and Genteel Pupils
7. “A remarkable accomplishment for one of the gentle sex”: Other Professionals
Part 4. The Civil War
8. “The female tribe as ‘angels’ on earth … is being … entirely dissipated”: The Parlor and the Civil War
9. “Many shades of caste and kind”: The Civil War and the Public Gaze
Part 5. Women Musicians in the Reconstruction Era
10. “She takes up music as a profession”: Career Women
11. “Beethoven wrote it—that is enough”: Reconstructed Women Reconstructing Repertory
Conclusion: “This old piece of music keeps her name like a flower pressed in a book”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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