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Originally published in 2003 and selected from papers given at the third biennial conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, this volume, in common with

How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays set

Explores the influence of anthropological theories, travel literature, psychology, and other intellectual trends on the perception of non-Western music and eluc

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