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    Women and Music: A History
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    Women and Music: A History

    By Indiana University Press

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    This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateApr 22, 2001
    ISBN9780253115034
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