FROM PIANO GIRL TO PROFESSIONAL: THE CHANGING FORM OF MUSIC INSTRUCTION AT THE NASHVILLE FEMALE ACADEMY, WARD’S SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES, AND THE WARD-BELMONT SCHOOL, 1816-1920

During the nineteenth century middle and upper-class women in Nashville and the surrounding region occupied a clearly defined place within society, and their social and academic education was designed to prepare them for that place. Even as female education gradually became more progressive in the l...

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Main Author: Rumbley, Erica J
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2014
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/24
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=music_etds