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Nineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.

Table of Contents
1. Nineteenth-Century Music and Its Contexts
2. The Romantic Imagination
3. Music and the Age of Metternich
4. The Opera Industry
5. Making Music Matter: Criticism and Performance
6. Making Music Speak: Program Music and the Character Piece
7. Beyond Romanticism
8. Richard Wagner and Wagnerism
9. Verdi, Operetta, and Popular Appeal
10. Concert Culture and the “Great” Symphony
11. Musical Life and Identity in the United States
12. The Fin de Siècle and the Emergence of Modernism
13. The Sound of Nineteenth-Century Music

Music in the Nineteenth Century

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    A Paperback / softback by Walter Frisch, Walter Frisch

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: 02/11/2012
      ISBN13: 9780393929195, 978-0393929195
      ISBN10: 0393929191
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Nineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.

      Table of Contents
      1. Nineteenth-Century Music and Its Contexts
      2. The Romantic Imagination
      3. Music and the Age of Metternich
      4. The Opera Industry
      5. Making Music Matter: Criticism and Performance
      6. Making Music Speak: Program Music and the Character Piece
      7. Beyond Romanticism
      8. Richard Wagner and Wagnerism
      9. Verdi, Operetta, and Popular Appeal
      10. Concert Culture and the “Great” Symphony
      11. Musical Life and Identity in the United States
      12. The Fin de Siècle and the Emergence of Modernism
      13. The Sound of Nineteenth-Century Music

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