Music and fantasy in the age of Berlioz / by Brittan, Francesca

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The other worlds of Hector Berlioz : travels with the orchestra / by Van Rij, Inge

Table of Contents: “…Travels with the orchestra: Travel writing and Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise -- Conquering other worlds: Military metaphors, virtuosity, and subjectivity in Symphonie funèbre et triomphale and Harold en Italie -- Visions of other worlds: Sensing the supernatural in Épisode de la vie d'un artiste and La nonne sanglante -- Back to (the music of) the future: Aesthetics of technology in Berlioz's Euphonia and Damnation de Faust -- Exhibiting other worlds: Les Troyens, museum culture, and human zoos.…”
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The musical madhouse = Les grotesques de la musique / by Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869

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Music in the romantic period : an anthology with commentary /

Table of Contents: “…The early phase in France and Italy. Berlioz ;…”

Richard Wagner's essays on conducting : a new translation with critical commentary / by Walton, Chris, 1963-

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Music in 1853 : the biography of a year / by Macdonald, Hugh, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Brahms leaves home, April-May -- Berlioz and Spohr in London, May-July -- Brahms and Liszt in Weimar, June -- Wagner and Liszt in Zurich, May-July -- Berlioz in Baden-Baden and Frankfurt, July-August -- Joachim and Brahms in Gottingen and Bonn, July-September -- Liszt in Frankfurt, Weimar, and Carlsbad, July-September -- Wagner in St Moritz and La Spezia, July-September -- Liszt in Karlsruhe, September-October -- Schumann and Brahms in Dusseldorf, September-October -- Liszt, Wagner and Berlioz in Paris, October -- Berlioz, Joachim and Brahms in Hanover, October-November -- Brahms, Berlioz and Liszt in Leipzig, November-December -- The Schumanns in Holland and Hanover, November-February.…”
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The romantic generation / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…Music and sound -- Fragments -- Mountains and song cycles -- Formal interlude -- Chopin: counterpoint and the narrative forms -- Chopin: virtuosity transformed -- Chopin: from the miniature genre to the sublime style -- Liszt: on creation as performance -- Berlioz: liberation from the central European tradition -- Mendelssohn and the invention of religious kitsch -- Romantic opera: politics, trash, and high art -- Schumann: triumph and failure of the romantic ideal.…”
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Ohne Worte : vocality and instrumentality in 19th-century music / by Torbianelli, Edoardo, 1970-, Roudet, Jeanne, Bartoli, Jean-Pierre, Seaton, Douglass, Mossburger, Hubert

Table of Contents: “…Playing with images : character and emotion in the age of romanticism / Edoardo Torbianelli -- "Inner voices' and "deep combinations" : Robert Schumann's approach to romantic polyphony / Hubert Moßburger -- Frédéric Chopin, Clara Schuman, and the singing piano school / Jeanne Roudet -- Vocal patterns in the themes of Berlioz's instrumental music / Jean-Pierre Bartoli -- Plot and narrative in Mendelssohn's chamber music for strings and piano / Douglass Seaton -- Robert Schumann's poetic paraphrases : analytical implications / Hubert Moßburger.…”
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Beethoven's century : essays on composers and themes / by Macdonald, Hugh, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven's game of cat and mouse ; Schubert's pendulum ; Paganini, Mendelssohn and Turner in Scotland ; Berlioz and Schumann ; Alkan's instruments ; Liszt the conductor ; Wolf's Wagner ; Massenet's craftsmanship ; Skryabin's conquest of time ; Janáček's narratives -- Themes. …”
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Ohne Worte : vocality and instrumentality in 19th-century music / by Mossburger, Hubert, Seaton, Douglass, Roudet, Jeanne, Torbianelli, Edoardo, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Playing with images : character and emotion in the Age of Romanticism / Edoardo Torbianelli -- "Inner voices" and "deep combinations" : Robert Schumann's approach to romantic polyphony / Hubert Mossburger -- Frederic Chopin, Clara Schuman, and the singing piano school / Jeanne Roudet -- Vocal patterns in the themes of Berlioz's instrumental music / Jean-Pierre Bartoli -- Plot and narrative in Mendelssohn's chamber music for strings and piano / Douglass Seaton -- Robert Schumann's poetic paraphrases : analytical implications / personalia / Hubert Mossburger.…”
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European music and musicians in New York City, 1840-1900 /

Table of Contents: “…Robert Schumann's music in New York City, 1848-1898 / Nancy B. Reich -- Presenting Berlioz's music in New York, 1846-1890 : Carl Bergmann, Theodore Thomas, Leopold Damrosch / Ora Frishberg Saloman -- Liszt (and Wagner) in New York, 1840-1890 / Rena Charnin Mueller -- "Home, sweet home" away from home : Sigismund Thalberg in New York, 1856-1858 / R. …”
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V.F. Odoevsky : his life, times and milieu / by Cornwell, Neil

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Two The ThinkerI Odoyevsky's Philosophical Development; II Odoyevsky and the Philosophical Tradition; III Odoyevsky and the Slavophiles; Chapter Three The Musician; I The Musical Dimension; II Odoyevsky's Early Musical Career; III Odoyevsky's Ideas on Music; IV Odoyevsky and Russian Music; V Odoyevsky and Western Music; VI Liszt, Berlioz and Wagner: Personal Contacts; VII Odoyevsky and Russian Musical Life; Chapter Four The Popular Educator: Odoyevsky's activities as Pedagogue, Philanthropist and Children's Writer; I The Pedagogue; Functionary and Theorist; The Passion for Science.…”
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Dickens, journalism, music : Household words and All the year round / by Bledsoe, Robert Terrell

Table of Contents: “…Iv Shakespeare, Faust, and Music about Music v De Mortuis: Obituaries for Meyerbeer and Berlioz ; vi Offenbach and Wagner: The Mire and the Mist ; Chapter 4 Music and Friendship; i Dickens, Viardot, and the Prophet ; ii Musical Friends in England ; iii Chorley and the Lehmanns ; iv Dickens and the Lehmanns ; v Orphée in Paris: Offenbach, Gluck, Berlioz ; vi Robert Lytton's Tannhäuser and Arthur Sullivan's Tempest ; vii A Time to Weep and a Reason: Orphée and Resurrection ; viii Gounod's Faust: Angels and Pursuers ; Epilogue ; i Classical Music and English Worshippers ; ii Personal ; Notes.…”
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Fromental Halévy and His Operas, 1842-1862. by Letellier, Robert Ignatius

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Thinking about harmony : historical perspectives on analysis / by Damschroder, David

Table of Contents: “…A Beethoven/Schubert connection. Berlioz and Fétis on embellishment -- Parallel and sequential progressions. …”
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Musical encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair / by Fauser, Annegret

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Music drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 / by Everist, Mark

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