This chapter marks the existence and influence of professional women on women musicians by first defining and contextualizing scientific music, examining how schools approached teaching music as science, and exploring public commentary on music, science, and gentility in combination. Part 3 closely examines specific people who taught in southern schools, from exotic foreign teachers to local familiars. The final section interrogates the circumstances surrounding the women who stretched the ideals of gentility, those who took on more masculine roles (as businesswomen, organists in cathedrals, and directors of civic music), and how they maintained respectability while in the public gaze in places such as New Orleans, Mobile, and Charleston.