MUSI 022: Nineteenth-Century European Music (SC)

by Jim Samson through Oxford Music Online. Includes a discussion of the history and meaning of the term "romanticism", a discussion of styles, a good bibliography and list of primary sources.

by Michael Saffle. Includes an introduction and sections on Reference Works; Anthologies; Survey Studies (Other Arts, Social Issues, Historical Surveys, Genres, Aesthetics); Nine “Great” Romantic Composers; Musical Romanticism in France, Italy, Russia, and Elsewhere; Analyzing Works of Musical Romanticism; Musical Post-Romanticism; Instruments, Orchestration, and Performance Practices

by Richard Taruskin. A survey of the traditions of western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, this book illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age.