Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) books

Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense examines the experience of listeners and the politics...  Read More >>

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The chapters in this volume explore ways of thinking about sound historically, and seek to understand how people...  Read More >>

Arthur Sullivan was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated composer, whose music still reaches a wider audience than...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of sources, Cairns recreates the vivid everyday reality of Berlioz's life. He tells of the...  Read More >>

In The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War, an interdisciplinary team of scholars explores the way the arts...  Read More >>

Describes the composer Berlioz's early life and career until the celebrated performance of Symphonie Fantastique...  Read More >>

This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blending history and musical analysis, Davidian reveals the genius of Debussy’s major works. As Davidian looks beneath...  Read More >>

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

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

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