Romantic music
Subtitle: a concise history from Schubert to Sibelius
By: Arnold Whittall
Series: World of art
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Romanticism in music
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 185-187.
Table of contents: title: "Romanticism" : a word and its world; title: Shadow and its stimulus : the move away from Classicism; title: "A gracious, well-bred air" : Romanticism in Germany before Wagner; title: "True passion and emotion" : the Italian alternative, from Paganini to Donizetti; title: "beethoven being dead ..." : Berlioz and Romanticism in France; title: "The scent of Paradise" : Chopin's radicalism and the imagery of Romanticism; title: Liszt and Wagner : the high Romantic drama; title: "Half vulture, half phoenix" : Verdi's Romantic synthesis; title: From Glinka to Grieg : crosscurrents in romantic nationalism; title: Along the fringe : late Romantic music in Britain, France and America; title: Symphony and song : Vienna in the later nineteenth century; title: Into the twentieth century.