Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) books

1237 books were found.

Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism...

Author: K.M. Knittel
ISBN: 9780754663720
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Representations of the Orient in Western Music: Violence and Sensuality

Representations of the Orient in Western Music: Violence...

Author: Nasser Al-Taee
ISBN: 9780754664697
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western Music. The author traces...  Read More >>

Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context

Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context

Author: Angus Watson
ISBN: 9781843835776
Format: Hardback
$211.20

This comprehensive survey shows how the larger scale works relate to Beethoven's chamber music and how the composer...  Read More >>

Weana Tanz (Wiener Tänze): Teil 1: Geschichte und Typologie / Teil 2: Die Sammlung

Weana Tanz (Wiener Tänze): Teil 1: Geschichte und Typologie...

Author: Ernst Weber ,  Univ.-Prof. Walter Deutsch
ISBN: 9783205786733
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Teil 2 consists of examples of attributed and unattributed dance music from various sources, principally in score...  Read More >>

The Influence of European Literary and Artistic Representations of the 'Orient' on Western Orchestral Compositions, Ca. 1840-1920: From Oriental Inspiration to 'Erotic Orchestration'

The Influence of European Literary and Artistic Representations...

Author: Jonathan Little
ISBN: 9780773414266
Format: Hardback
$422.27

A comprehensive survey of the major sources of inspiration for Western composers who sought to infuse their musical...  Read More >>

Liszt's 'Chopin': A New Edition

Liszt's 'Chopin': A New Edition

Author: Meirion Hughes ,  Martin Hargreaves
ISBN: 9780719083518
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its...  Read More >>

Liszt's 'Chopin': A New Edition

Liszt's 'Chopin': A New Edition

Author: Meirion Hughes ,  Martin Hargreaves
ISBN: 9780719085680
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Mahler's Concerts

Mahler's Concerts

Author: Knud Martner
ISBN: 9780715639764
Format: Hardback
$77.63

The first complete history of Gustav Mahler as a conductor.  Read More >>

The Beethoven Song Companion

The Beethoven Song Companion

Author: Paul Reid ,  Barry Cooper
ISBN: 9780719075711
Format: Paperback
$45.99

This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven's songs. All the composer's songs with piano are included,...  Read More >>

Wagner's Eternal Ring

Wagner's Eternal Ring

Author: Nancy Ellison ,  Peter Gelb
ISBN: 9780847834631
Format: Hardback
$224.40

A beautifully produced volume celebrating Wagner's Ring in full-page color photographs, and complete with historical...  Read More >>

Opéra-Comique: A Sourcebook

Opéra-Comique: A Sourcebook

Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
ISBN: 9781443821407
Format: Hardback
$258.69

Opera-comique, like grand opera, a specifically French genre of opera, emerged from the political changes and intellectual...  Read More >>

Mahler's Concerts

Mahler's Concerts

Author: Knud Martner
ISBN: 9781590203927
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Mahler is considered one of the foremost composers during his time.  Read More >>

Reading Mahler: German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Reading Mahler: German Culture and Jewish Identity in...

Author: Carl Niekerk (Customer)
ISBN: 9781571134677
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the...  Read More >>

Life and Music of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), a Woman Composer of the Victorian Era: A Critical Assessment of Her Achievement

Life and Music of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), a Woman...

Author: Ian Graham-Jones
ISBN: 9780773413832
Format: Hardback
$263.87

At a time when women were thought to succeed only in composing drawing-room songs or lightweight piano pieces, Alice...  Read More >>

Mahler Remembered

Mahler Remembered

Author: Norman Lebrecht
ISBN: 9780571272778
Format: Paperback
$38.81

Gustav Mahler is the most influential symphonist of the twentieth century. This book reveals the man and musician...  Read More >>

Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony

Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony

Author: Marc D. Moskovitz (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843835783
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Moskovitz's exploration of Zemlinsky's songs, operas, choral works, chamber music and symphonic compositions follows...  Read More >>

Mendelssohn and the Organ

Mendelssohn and the Organ

Author: Wm. Little (Prof. Emeritus of German and Music, Prof. Emeritus of German and Music, University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9780195394382
Format: Hardback
$308.00

Mendelssohn and the Organ is the first comprehensive historical-critical study in any language to examine the role...  Read More >>

The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa

The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa

Author: Paul E. Bierley
ISBN: 9780252077814
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Michael W Balfe: A Unique Victorian Composer

Michael W Balfe: A Unique Victorian Composer

Author: Basil Walsh
ISBN: 9780716529484
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Michael William Balfe (1808-1870), rose to fame in London in 1835 immediately after the premiere of his first opera,...  Read More >>

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

Author: David J. Code
ISBN: 9781861897596
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Brahms and the Scherzo: Studies in Musical Narrative

Brahms and the Scherzo: Studies in Musical Narrative...

Author: Ryan McClelland
ISBN: 9780754668107
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Ludwig Minkus: Don Quichotte; Ballet en cinq actes, avec prologue et épilogue, et onze tableaux, par Marius Peitpa après Miguel de Cervantes Piano Score

Ludwig Minkus: Don Quichotte; Ballet en cinq actes,...

Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
ISBN: 9781443821308
Format: Paperback
$158.37

In 1868 the choreographer Marius Petipa planned his ballet Don Quixote for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and the...  Read More >>

A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal

A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal

Author: William Kinderman (Royalty Account) ,  Katherine R. Syer (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781571134578
Format: Paperback
$105.47

New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work.  Read More >>

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