Women and musical salons in the Enlightenment

Musical salons as liminal spaces: salonnières as agents of musical culture

Sensuality, sociability, and sympathy: musical salon practices as enactments of Enlightenment

Ephemerae and authorship in the salon of Madame Brillon

Composition, collaboration, and the cultivation of skill in the salon of Marianna Martines

The cultural work of collecting and performing in the salon of Sara Levy

Musical improvisation and poetic painting in the salon of Angelica Kauffman

Reading musically in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme

Conclusion.