Based on specific literary resouces, this book provides information on over 260 pieces of orchestral program music up to 1950. Each entry consists of: an accoun

Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Bee

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some

This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerf