We pick up in the medieval period and learn about how women mostly helped the men in their lives with their music. :/

Historical records don’t seem to reflect women’s work in the creation of music in the historical periods. There are some records surviving, but it seems that as far as history is concerned the main thing women did was support their creative husbands.

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