一般注記The musical work and nineteenth-century history / Jim Samson -- Music and the rise of aesthetics / Andrew Bowie -- The profession of music / John Rink -- The opera industry / Roger Parker -- The construction of Beethoven / K.M. Knittel -- Music and the poetic / Julian Rushton -- The invention of tradition / John Irving -- Choral music / John Butt -- The consumption of music / Derek Carew -- The great composer / Jim Samson -- Progress, modernity and the concept of an avant-garde / John Williamson -- Music as ideal: the aesthetics of autonomy / Max Paddison -- The structures of musical life / Katharine Ellis -- Opera and music drama / Thomas Grey -- Beethoven reception: the symphonic tradition / James Hepokoski -- Words and music in Germany and France / Susan Youens -- Chamber music and piano / Jonathan Dunsby -- Choral culture and the regeneration of the organ / John Butt -- Music and social class / Derek B. Scott -- Nations and nationalism / Jim Samson -- Styles and languages around the turn of the century / Anthony Pople -- Chronology / Sarah Hibberd -- Institutions / Sarah Hibberd -- Personalia / Sarah Hibberd.
A comprehensive overview of 19th century music, drawing on the most recent scholarship and research. The essays cover both music and its relationships to society. With a preface, chronology, lists of important institutions and persons, and index.
First published 2001.