Reclaiming late-romantic music : singing devils and distant sounds / by Franklin, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scene : grandiose symphonics and the trouble with art -- Pessimism, ecstasy and distant voices : listening to late-romanticism -- Sunsets, sunrises and decadent oceanics -- Making the world weep (more problems with opera) -- Late romanticism meets classical music at the movies -- The bitter truth of modernism : a late-romantic story.…”
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Dickens, journalism, music : Household words and All the year round / by Bledsoe, Robert Terrell

Table of Contents: “…Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations; Introduction; i Overview ; ii Amusements: Sweet and Useful ; iii Music and Theatrical Fiction ; iv Classical Music and Opera ; Chapter 1 Household Words: 1850-1859; i Dickens Conducts "The General Improvement of Our Social Condition" ; ii Music, Metaphor, Cliché ; iii Mr. …”
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Building musical culture in nineteenth-century Amsterdam. The Concertgebouw / by Cressman, Darryl

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Music of the highest class : elitism and populism in antebellum Boston / by Broyles, Michael, 1939-

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The Edinburgh History of Reading : Modern Readers /

Table of Contents: “…The rise of night reading in nineteenth-century Britain / Christopher Ferguson -- The book as prop in the missionary imagination : picturing Africans as readers / Natalie Fossey and Lize Kriel -- Augustus De Morgan (1806-71), his reading and his library / Karen Attar -- William Gladstone reads his contemporaries / Michael Wheeler -- Reading while travelling in the long nineteenth century / Mary Hammond -- The empire reads back : travel, exploration and the British world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / John McAleer -- 'Knowledge of books' and 'appreciation of literature' : reading choices of aspiring American librarians in the progressive era / Christine Pawley -- Papers, posters and pamphlets : UK readers in the second world war / Simon Eliot -- Peace of mind in the age of anxiety : Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and America's post-war therapeutic faith / Cheryl Oestreicher -- Reading and classical music in mid-twentieth-century America / Joan Shelley Rubin -- Remaking the world through reading : books, readers and the global project of modernity, 1945-70 / Amanda Laugesen -- Amazing stories, 1950-3 : the readers behind the covers / Angelle Whavers -- The other digital divide : gendering science fiction fan reading in print and online, 1930 to the present / Cait Coker -- 'A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast' (Matthew Arnold, 'The Buried Life') : a methodology for literary reading in the twenty-first century / Philip Davis and Josie Billington.…”
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Schubert's late music : history, theory, style / edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Julian Horton.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Schubert's late style and current musical scholarship Lorraine Byrne Bodley -- Part I: Reception Histories. 'Classical' music and Viennese resistance to Schubert's Beethoven project / John M. …”

Harbingers of twentieth-century neo-classicism / by Egeland Hansen, Finn

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Harmony in Mendelssohn and Schumann / by Damschroder, David

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Schubert's late music : history, theory, style /

Table of Contents: “…Schubert and concepts of late style -- 17 Bounded finitude and boundless infinitude: Schubert's contradictions at the 'final barrier' -- 18 Invocations of memory in Schubert's last songs -- 19 'The prerogative of late style': thoughts on the expressive world of Schubert's late works -- 20 Singing against late style: the problem of performance history -- 10 Schubert hearing Don Giovanni: Mozartian death music in the 'Unfinished' Symphony -- 11 Longing for the unattainable: the second movement of the 'Great' C major Symphony -- 12 Tonal recollection in Schubert's late instrumental music -- 13 Detours, wrong tracks and dead ends: the Wanderer in the labyrinth of Schubert's late instrumental music -- 14 Formal ambiguity and generic reinterpretation in the late instrumental music -- 5 Schubert's alchemy: transformative surfaces, transfiguring depths -- 6 Against the grain: the Sonata in G (D. 894) and a hermeneutics of late style -- 7 Schubert's Wiegenlied: the Andante sostenuto from the Piano Sonata in Bb, D. 960 -- 8 Schubert's reconciliation of gothic and classical influences -- 9 The first movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata D. 959 and the performance of analysis -- 1 'Classical' music and Viennese resistance to Schubert's Beethoven project.…”
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A girl's life in New Orleans : the diary of Ella Grunewald, 1884-1886 / by Grunewald, Ella, 1867-1890

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Becoming Clara Schumann : performance strategies and aesthetics in the culture of the musical canon / by Stefaniak, Alexander, 1983-

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Concert life in nineteenth-century New Orleans : a comprehensive reference / by Baron, John H.

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