Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) books

1240 books were found.

Figures of the Imagination: Fiction and Song in Britain, 1790–1850

Figures of the Imagination: Fiction and Song in Britain,...

Author: Roger Hansford
ISBN: 9780367231415
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Figures of the Imagination explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song...  Read More >>

Schumann's Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann's Fiction

Schumann's Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann's Fiction

Author: John MacAuslan
ISBN: 9781316506509
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Four of Schumann's great masterpieces of the 1830s are connected to the fiction of E. T. A. Hoffmann. John MacAuslan...  Read More >>

Harmony in Beethoven

Harmony in Beethoven

Author: David Damschroder (University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781316500620
Format: Paperback
$80.19

David Damschroder's ongoing reformulation of harmonic theory continues with a dynamic exploration of how Beethoven...  Read More >>

Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture

Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Nicole Grimes (University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9781108474498
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Exploring the philosophical dimensions of Brahms's music, this book analyzes his elegiac works and their relationship...  Read More >>

British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood

British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900: Re-Tuning...

Author: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
ISBN: 9780367140427
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of...  Read More >>

French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music

French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music

Author: Joseph Acquisto
ISBN: 9781138375994
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Offers a study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarme, Ghil, and Royere question the nature and function of the...  Read More >>

Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Author: Mark Everist
ISBN: 9781138065161
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging a...  Read More >>

Vincenzo Bellini and the Aesthetics of Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Vincenzo Bellini and the Aesthetics of Early Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Simon Maguire
ISBN: 9781138365988
Format: Hardback
$242.00

First published in 1989. This study explores Italian attitudes to opera while Vincenzo Bellini was studying and...  Read More >>

The Last Troubadours: Poetic Drama in Italian Opera, 1597-1887

The Last Troubadours: Poetic Drama in Italian Opera,...

Author: Deirdre O'Grady
ISBN: 9781138365124
Format: Hardback
$242.00

First published in 1991. Deirdre O'Grady's study of the Italian operatic librettist identifies opera as a mirror...  Read More >>

English Opera from 1834 to 1864 with Particular Reference to the Works of Michael Balfe

English Opera from 1834 to 1864 with Particular Reference...

Author: George Biddlecombe
ISBN: 9781138364943
Format: Hardback
$263.00

First published in 1994. This study sets out to investigate English opera from 1834 to 1864. The author attempts...  Read More >>

American Musical Life in Context and Practice to 1865

American Musical Life in Context and Practice to 1865...

Author: James R. Heintze
ISBN: 9781138365841
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1994. The subjects discussed in this title reflect the religious, ethnic, and social plurality...  Read More >>

Experiencing Debussy: A Listener's Companion

Experiencing Debussy: A Listener's Companion

Author: Teresa Davidian
ISBN: 9781442271456
Format: Hardback
$90.99

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The Music of Joseph Joachim

The Music of Joseph Joachim

Author: Katharina Uhde (Person)
ISBN: 9781783272846
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) was arguably the greatest violinist of the nineteenth century. But Joachim was also a...  Read More >>

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

Author: Dr. Alan Walker
ISBN: 9780374159061
Format: Hardback
$77.63

A landmark biography of the Polish composer by one of the world’s leading authorities on Chopin and his time.  Read More >>

Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise

Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American...

Author: Douglas Shadle (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Vanderbilt University)
ISBN: 9780190914479
Format: Paperback
$61.95

During the nineteenth century, nearly one hundred symphonies were written by over fifty composers living in the...  Read More >>

Composing History: National Identities and the English Masque Revival, 1860-1920

Composing History: National Identities and the English...

Author: Deborah Heckert (Customer)
ISBN: 9781783272075
Format: Hardback
$194.06

A study of the ways in which topics of English history were central to conceptions of English identity, musical...  Read More >>

Music in The Girl's Own Paper: An Annotated Catalogue, 1880-1910

Music in The Girl's Own Paper: An Annotated Catalogue,...

Author: Judith Barger
ISBN: 9781138380028
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed

Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed

Author: John Suchet
ISBN: 9781783963836
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A tortured genius, a sensitive soul, a great composer burdened by the weight of his private desires  Read More >>

Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune

Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune

Author: Gurminder Kaur Bhogal (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Wellesley College)
ISBN: 9780190696078
Format: Paperback
$28.95

Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude...  Read More >>

Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune

Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune

Author: Gurminder Kaur Bhogal (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Wellesley College)
ISBN: 9780190696061
Format: Hardback
$233.00

Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude...  Read More >>

Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911

Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911

Author: Derek Miller (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108425889
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Copyright for performances of theater and music was invented in the nineteenth century. Courtroom battles over new...  Read More >>

The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music: Composers, Consumers, Communities

The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music:...

Author: Marie Sumner Lott
ISBN: 9780252083846
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Marie Sumner Lott examines the music available to musical consumers in the nineteenth century, and what that music...  Read More >>

Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music

Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Dana Gooley (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Brown University)
ISBN: 9780190633585
Format: Hardback
$80.95

The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music from the time of Beethoven through the later nineteenth...  Read More >>

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