Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition covers the persons, ideas, practices, and works that made up the worlds of Western music during the long 19th century (ca. 1780-1918). It's the first book to recognize that Romantic music was very nearly a global phenomenon. It includes more women, more Black musicians and other musicians of color, and more exponents of musical Romanticism from Central and South America as well as Central and Eastern Europe than any other single-volume study of Romantic music-thus challenging the conventional hegemony of musical Romanticisms by men and by Western European nations. This book includes entries on topics including anti-Semitism, sexism, and racism that were pervasive and defining to the worlds of musical Romanticism but are rarely addressed in general studies of that subject. It includes Romantic musicians who were not primarily composers, as well as topics such as the Haitian Revolution, spirituals, and ragtime that were more important for music in the long 19th century than is generally acknowledged. The result is an expansive, inclusive, diverse, and more richly textured portrayal of Romantic music than is elsewhere available.

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 600 cross-referenced entries on traditions, famous pieces, persons, places, technical terms, and institutions of Romantic music. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Romantic music.

List of contents

Preface
Reader's Notes
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Bibliography
About the Authors

About the author

By John Michael Cooper - With Randy Kinnett and Megan Marie McCarty

Product details

• Authors: John Cooper, John Michael Cooper, Cooper John Michael
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781538157510
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5751-0
• No. of pages: 846
• Assisted by: Randy Kinnett, Megan Marie McCarty
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts; Historical Dictionaries of Lit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Music, History: specific events & topics, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Reference, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Reference works, History of Music, Romanticism, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music