The Cambridge history of nineteenth-century music
By: edited by Jim Samson.
Contributors: Samson, Jim.
Series: The Cambridge history of music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 772
Subjects: Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The musical work and nineteenth-century history / Jim Samson; title: Music and the rise of aesthetics / Andrew Bowie; title: The profession of music / John Rink; title: The opera industry / Roger Parker; title: The construction of Beethoven / K.M. Knittel; title: Music and the poetic / Julian Rushton; title: The invention of tradition / John Irving; title: Choral music / John Butt; title: The consumption of music / Derek Carew; title: The great composer / Jim Samson; title: Progress, modernity and the concept of an avant-garde / John Williamson; title: Music as ideal: the aesthetics of autonomy / Max Paddison; title: The structures of musical life / Katharine Ellis; title: Opera and music drama / Thomas Grey; title: Beethoven reception: the symphonic tradition / James Hepokoski; title: Words and music in Germany and France / Susan Youens; title: Chamber music and piano / Jonathan Dunsby; title: Choral culture and the regeneration of the organ / John Butt; title: Music and social class / Derek B. Scott; title: Nations and nationalism / Jim Samson; title: Styles and languages around the turn of the century / Anthony Pople; title: Chronology / Sarah Hibberd; title: Institutions / Sarah Hibberd; title: Personalia / Sarah Hibberd.