Book Review: Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer; Music, Women, and Pianos in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: The Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary
[...]she explains that the level of difficulty of the music that southern belles often played in private spaces contradicted the societal prejudice against highly technical musical displays by women, and that this repertory was beyond the abilities of most amateur musicians.3As the author notes, the...
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