Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Music History:

Patronage


Botstein, Leon. "Subjects for Debate: Women and Patronage in Music--Remembering Helen Huntington Hull (1893-1976)." The Musical Quarterly 78/4 (1994), 641-645.

Feldman, Ann E. "Being Heard: Women Composers and Patrons at the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition." Notes 47 (Sept. 1990), 7-20.

Fenlon, Ian. "Gender and Generation: Patterns of Music Patronage Among the Este, 1471-1539." In The court of Ferrara and its Patronage, 1441-1598, ed. by Marianne Pade, Lene Wange Petesen, and Daniela Quarta, 213-232. Kacentsbenhavn, Denmark: Museum Tusculanums, 1990. [patronage, Ferrara, Isabelle d'Este]

Locke, Ralph P. "Paradoxes of the Woman Music Patron in America." The Musical Quarterly 78 (Winter 1994), 798-825.

Locke, Ralph P. "Women in American Musical Life: Facts and Questions about Patronage." repercussions 3/2 (1994), 81-95.

Prizer, William F. "Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia as Patrons of Music: The Frottola at Mantua and Ferrara." Journal of the American Musicological Society 38 (Spring 1985), 1-33.

Prizer, William F. "Renaissance Women as Patrons of Music: The North-Italian Courts." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall, 186-205. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

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