Timelines in music history: Women in music in Oxford Music Online - 1 views
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Red Educativa Musical on 23 Oct 12Maddalena Casulana publishes her first book of madrigals, the first music publication devoted to the works of a woman. Her aim, as she states in the dedication, is ' to show to the world the foolish error of men who so greatly believe themselves to be the masters of high intellectual gifts that [these gifts] cannot, it seems to them, be equally common among women'.