"Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne" : the cloistered musician in the Middle Ages / Ann Bagnall Yardley --

Jougleresses and Trobairitz : secular musicians in medieval France / Maria V. Coldwell --

Women singers and women's songs in fifteenth-century Italy / Howard Mayer Brown --

Courtesans, muses, or musicians? Professional women musicians in sixteenth-century Italy / Anthony Newcomb --

The emergence of women composers in Italy, 1566-1700 --

Appendix: Compositions by Italian women Published 1566-1700 / Jane Bowers --

Voice of Barbara Strozzi / Ellen Rosand --

Musiciennes of the ancien regime / Julie Anne Sadie --

Women and the Lied, 1775-1850 / Marcia J. Citron --

Clara Schumann / Nancy B. Reich --

Luise Adolpha Le Beau : composer in late nineteenth-century Germany / Judith E. Olson --

"Shout, shout, up with your song!" Dame Ethel Smyth and the changing role of the British woman composer / Jane A. Bernstein --

Passed away is the piano girl : changes in American musical life, 1870-1900 / Judith Tick --

Women's orchestras in the United States, 1925-45 / Carol Neuls-Bates --

Ruth Crawford Seeger --

Appendix I: Oeuvre of Ruth Crawford Seeger --

Appendix II: Discography of works by Ruth Crawford Seeger / Matilda Gaume.