Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) books

Rethinking Schubert offers a conspectus of issues in Schubert scholarship, a reappraisal of key debates, and an...  Read More >>

This study of the Bach Choir provides a much-needed overview of one of the major choral societies in London. Dr...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and...  Read More >>

By examining previously unexplored archival sources, Alexander Stefaniak looks at the diverse approaches to virtuosity...  Read More >>

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

For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts. This work presents...  Read More >>

These essays offer a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and...  Read More >>

This volume contains the work of 11 North American scholars who have been recipients of the Ralph Vaughan Williams...  Read More >>

As Robert Schumann put it, 'Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author's imprint as his'. This book...  Read More >>

Deodat de Severac (1872-1921) is best known for his piano music but his compositions included orchestral and vocal...  Read More >>

Mark Berry explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner’s Ring through close attention to the...  Read More >>

Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual...  Read More >>

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This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world...  Read More >>

ETA Hoffmann is widely known as the author of fantastic tales. This book examines Hoffmann's aesthetic thought within...  Read More >>

The period covered by this volume, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has traditionally been seen as a dark age in British...  Read More >>

Since the nineteenth century, critics and scholars have emphasized the mystical rather than the logical qualities...  Read More >>

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Although Western scholars have examined the operas, symphonies and piano pieces of Prokofiev little has been written...  Read More >>

The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have...  Read More >>

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Wagner's melodies sparked one of the most controversial debates in nineteenth-century aesthetics and continue to...  Read More >>

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>