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Book SynopsisExamines sources as disparate as journalism, novels, etiquette manuals, religious tracts, and teenagers' diaries for the muffled, even subterranean, conversations that reveal so much about what music meant to the Victorians.
Table of ContentsPrelude 1. Beethoven as Secular Humanist: Ideology and the Ninth Symphony in Nineteenth-Century Criticism 2. Music in a Victorian Mirror: MacmillanAfs Magazine in the Grove Years 3. "Girling" at the Parlor Piano 4. Biedermeier Domesticity and the Schubert Circle: A Rereading 5. "Tadpole Pleasures": Daniel Deronda as Music Historiography 6. Fictions of the Opera Box Index