Nineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Music in the Nineteenth Century examines the period from the Congress of Vienna in

This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of th

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the s

First published in 2002, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on extensive scholarship in the field.

Music played an important role in the social life of nineteenth-century Europe, and music in the home provided a convenient way to entertain and communicate amo