Beer, Anna R.,  1964- <br/><br/>
Sounds and sweet airs :  the forgotten women of classical music / 
Anna Beer. 
 - xi, 368 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Notes from the silence -- Caccini -- Strozzi -- Jacquet de la Guerre -- Martines -- Hensel -- Schumann -- Boulanger -- Maconchy -- Endnote. 
<br/><br/> Sounds and Sweet Airs reveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable female composers, taking the reader on a journey from seventeenth-century Medici Florence to London in the Blitz. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781780748566 1780748566 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640. <br/>Strozzi, Barbara, 1619-1677. <br/>Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729. <br/>Martinez, Marianne, 1744-1812. <br/>Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847. <br/>Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896. <br/>Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918. <br/>Maconchy, Elizabeth, 1907-1994. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women composers--Europe--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML82  / .S686 2016