The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music

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• The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Notes on Contributors ix
• Editor's Preface xiii
• Part One - 1800–1850 1
• 1 - The Musical Work and Nineteenth-Century History 3
• Bibliography *
• 2 - Music and the Rise of Aesthetics 29
• Bibliography *
• 3 - The Profession of Music 55
• Bibliography 85
• 4 - The Opera Industry 87
• Bibliography *
• 5 - The Construction of Beethoven 118
• Bibliography *

• The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Notes on Contributors ix
• Editor's Preface xiii
• Part One - 1800–1850 1
• 1 - The Musical Work and Nineteenth-Century History 3
• Bibliography *
• 2 - Music and the Rise of Aesthetics 29
• Bibliography *
• 3 - The Profession of Music 55
• Bibliography 85
• 4 - The Opera Industry 87
• Bibliography *
• 5 - The Construction of Beethoven 118
• Bibliography *
• 6 - Music and the Poetic 151
• Bibliography *
• 7 - The Invention of Tradition 178
• Bibliography *
• 8 - Choral Music 213
• Bibliography *
• 9 - The Consumption of Music 237
• Bibliography 258
• 10 - The Great Composer 259
• Bibliography 283
• Part Two - 1850–1900 285
• 11 - Progress, Modernity and the Concept of an Avant-Garde 287
• Bibliography *
• 12 - Music as Ideal: the Aesthetics of Autonomy 318
• Bibliography *
• 13 - The Structures of Musical Life 343
• Bibliography *
• 14 - Opera and Music Drama 371
• Bibliography *
• 15 - Beethoven Reception: the Symphonic Tradition 424
• Bibliography *
• 16 - Words and Music in Germany and France 460
• Bibliography *
• 17 - Chamber Music and Piano 500
• Bibliography *
• 18 - Choral Culture and the Regeneration of the Organ 522
• Bibliography *
• 19 - Music and Social Class 544
• Bibliography *
• 20 - Nations and Nationalism 568
• Bibliography *
• 21 - Styles and Languages Around the Turn of the Century 601
• Bibliography 620
• Chronology 621
• Institutions 659
• Personalia 689
• Index 747