Deborah Rohr is Associate Professor of Music at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her research interests include the social history of music, music and gender, and rhythm in tonal music and she has published in the Journal of Musicological Research.
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The social and professional status of musicians in the eighteenth century
2. Social profile
3. Patronage
4. Musical education
5. Church musicians
6. Secular musicians: singers
7. Secular musicians: instrumentalists
8. Teachers, composers, and entrepreneurs
9. The fortunes of musicians
10. The struggle for social and professional status
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
