Conducting the Brahms symphonies : from Brahms to Boult / by Dyment, Christopher

Subjects: “…Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Symphonies.…”
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Debussy and His World /

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French music, culture, and national identity, 1870-1939 /

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Stijlproeven van Nederlandse muziek = Anthology of music from the Netherlands : 1890-1960 /

Table of Contents: “…Fragmenten uit het tweede deel ("Op het land") van de Derde Symphonie "Aan mijn vaderland" ;…”

Imperium of the soul : the political and aesthetic imagination of Edwardian imperialists / by Etherington, Norman

Table of Contents: “…Rider Haggard, imperialism and the layered personality -- Love and loathing: Rudyard Kipling's India -- How Herbert Baker created an architecture of imperial power -- Joseph Conrad: Kipling's secret sharer -- Elgar and the Gordon Symphony -- John Buchan and the loathly opposite -- Lawrence of Arabia: great white hope of the Edwardian imperial romancers.…”

Allusion : a Literary Graft. by Pasco, Allan H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Ironic Interference and Allusion: 'Un Cœur simple'; 3 From Translation, Imitation, and Plagiarism to Parallel Allusion: Antigone; 4 From Allegory to Parallel Allusion and Sources: 'Le Rideau cramoisi'; 5 Allusive Complex: A la recherche du temps perdu; 6 Oppositional Allusion: Electre, La Symphonie pastorale, Eugénie Grandet; 7 Allusive Oxymoron: La Faute de l'abbé Mouret; 8 Allusive Permutations: La Nausée, Les Gommes; Notes; Index…”
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Foundational films : early cinema and modernity in Brazil / by Conde, Maite, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Modernismo's literary engagements with film -- The cine-poetry of Mário Peixoto's Limite -- Fabricating discipline and progress in São Paulo, symphony of a metropolis -- Postscript: towards new cinematic foundations.…”
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Making music in Los Angeles : transforming the popular / by Smith, Catherine Parsons, 1933-2009

Table of Contents: “…"The largest and most enthusiastic audience that ever has assembled in the city" : the National Opera Company of 1887 ; "A precarious means of living" : early working musicians and some of their jobs ; "Popular prices will prevail" : competing and cooperating impresarios ; Amateurs, professionals, and symphonies : Harley Hamilton and Edna Foy ; "Our awe struck vision" : a prominent impresario reconsidered -- Progressive-era musical idealism. …”
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Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918.

Table of Contents: “…Why American Art Music First Arrived in New EnglandPromoting the Local Product: Reflections on the California Musical Press, 1874-1914; Music in Lancaster, Kentucky, 1885-1910: Local Talent, Touring Artists, and the Opera House; Jacob Guth in Montrose: A Town Band in Central Pennsylvania, 1888-1897; When Cairo Met Main Street: Little Egypt, Salome Dancers, and the World's Fairs of 1893 and 1904; Inventing Tradition: Symphony and Opera in Progressive-Era Los Angeles; The Operettas of Charles Hutchinson Gabriel; The Missing Title Page: Dvořák and the American National Song; Index; Contributors.…”
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British musical criticism and intellectual thought, 1850-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Trends in British musical thought, 1850-1950 / Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton -- Avoiding "coarse invective" and "unseemly vehemence" : English music criticism, 1850-1870 / Peter Horton -- Spencer, sympathy and the Oxford school of music criticism / Bennett Zon -- Free thought and the musician : Ernest Walker, the "English Hanslick" / Jeremy Dibble -- Ernest Newman and the promise of method in biography, criticism and history / Paul Watt -- "Making symphony articulate" : Bernard Shaw's sense of music history / Harry White -- Analysis and value judgment : Schumann, Bruckner and Tovey's Essays in musical analysis / Julian Horton -- The scholar as critic : Edward J. …”
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Cultivating music in America : women patrons and activists since 1860 /

Table of Contents: “…Locke -- Women as "keepers of culture" : music clubs, community concert series, and symphony orchestras / Linda Whitesitt -- "The facts of (music club) life" in the 1960s as seen by mother and daughter / Mary Natvig -- Living with music : Isabella Stewart Gardner ; Playing for Mrs. …”
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Reading The century illustrated monthly magazine : American literature and culture, 1870-1893 / by Noonan, Mark J., 1968-

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