Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) books

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Connects the trope of music with Shelley's larger formal aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns, showing...  Read More >>

Explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of...  Read More >>

Wilhelm Furtwängler left not only some of the greatest interpretations of operatic and symphonic music on record,...  Read More >>

Plots the evolution of tonality and its bearing on style and the compositional process. This book states that the...  Read More >>

Born into the famous family of piano makers, Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929) became one of the chief collectors and scholars...  Read More >>

Despite the incredible diversity in Brahms' scherzo-type movements, there has been no comprehensive consideration...  Read More >>

Over the past twenty years musicologists and theorists have been intensely preoccupied with Brahms's compositions....  Read More >>

When Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin's music was performed during his lifetime, it always elicited ecstatic responses...  Read More >>

'I listen to a piece and ask myself what has made the greatest impression on me. What has moved me the most about...  Read More >>

"Selected from papers given at the third biennial conference, ""Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain"", this book,...  Read More >>

What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition?...  Read More >>

How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? That is the question which this volume...  Read More >>

Charles Halle was one of the leading musicians of the nineteenth century and intimate with almost all of the great...  Read More >>

Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate, as language does? What, between music and poetry,...  Read More >>

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The ancient Greek myth of Prometheus enjoyed popularity during the Romantic era. This book charts the progress of...  Read More >>

A collection of fourteen essays that reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire...  Read More >>

Surveys the success and failure that resulted from Mallarme's repeated attempts to draw out the musical gestures...  Read More >>

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

This innovative study of nineteenth-century cellists and cello playing shows how simple concepts of posture, technique...  Read More >>

Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was by far the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth...  Read More >>

By the mid-nineteenth century music publishing was no longer the provenance of shopkeepers, instrument makers or...  Read More >>

Presents insights into Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's music, biography and reception. This title offers essays on...  Read More >>

Edvard Grieg's choral music has remained little known outside Scandinavia. In this study, Beryl Foster not only...  Read More >>