Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) books

Roman Catholic church music in England served the needs of a vigorous, vibrant and multi-faceted community that...  Read More >>

Takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying a range of subjects associated with the creation, performance and...  Read More >>

The Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) is considered today to have been one of...  Read More >>

Considers the reception of the composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties...  Read More >>

Takes up the problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. This book examines the stylistic...  Read More >>

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Goethe and Zelter spent a staggering thirty-three years corresponding or in the case of each artist, over two thirds...  Read More >>

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An important and provocative contribution to the burgeoning literature on the Ballets Russes, this book examines...  Read More >>

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Presents a collection of essays by scholars of 19th and early 20th-century French music, assembled in homage to...  Read More >>

While the musical culture of the British Isles in the 'long nineteenth century' has been reclaimed from obscurity...  Read More >>

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first...  Read More >>

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's Iyre, but the notion that it might be...  Read More >>

Exploring the many aspects of Erik Satie's creativity, Caroline Potter examines his philosophy and psychology, revealed...  Read More >>

The genre of melodrame a grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which...  Read More >>

A study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and...  Read More >>

How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical...  Read More >>

From 1840-57, Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage,...  Read More >>

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to...  Read More >>

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This transcription of Allegro Appassionato for flute and harp by Elia Guarneri Silvino and Monica Turoni is based...  Read More >>

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to...  Read More >>