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Nineteenth-Century Music

ABSTRACT

This selection of essays represents a wide cross-section of the papers given at the Tenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music held at the University of Bristol in 1998. Sections include thematic groupings of work on musical meaning, Wagner, Liszt, musical culture in France, music and nation, and women and music.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

PART I PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC

chapter 1|14 pages

Musical Meaning?

part |2 pages

PART II WAGNER

chapter 2|20 pages

The Trial of Richard Wagner

chapter 3|21 pages

Music as Natural Language in the Moral Order of Wagner's Ring: Siegfried, Act 2, Scene 3

chapter 4|13 pages

Wagner and Mendelssohn

part |2 pages

PART III LISZT

chapter 5|23 pages

TrisZtan: Or, the Case of Liszt’s ‘Ich mo¨chte hingehn’

chapter 6|27 pages

The Controversy Surrounding Liszt’s Conception of Programme Music

chapter 7|30 pages

Death Transfigured: The Origins and Evolution of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz

chapter 8|14 pages

Common Narrative Structures in Music and Literature: A Semio-stylistic Investigation in the Arts of the Nineteenth Century (Liszt and Goethe) Ma´rta Grabo´cz

chapter 9|10 pages

Changing Aspects of the Sacred and Secular: Liszt’s Legend of St Elisabeth in the Repertory of the K.K. Hof-Operntheater in Vienna

part |2 pages

PART IV MEDIATING MUSIC: CREATING, COLLECTING AND PUBLISHING IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE

chapter 10|45 pages

World Fair – World Music: Musical Politics in 1889 Paris

chapter 11|24 pages

Regionalism, Latinite´ and the French Musical Tradition: De´odat de Se´verac’s He´liogabale

chapter 12|29 pages

He´rodiade: Church, State and the Feminist Movement

part |2 pages

PART V MUSIC AND NATION

chapter 13|15 pages

Music Copyright and the Prussian Copyright Act of 1837

chapter 14|18 pages

German Nationalism and the Reception of the Czech String Quartet in Vienna

chapter 15|19 pages

Creation/Evolution: Metaphoric Syntheses in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Music Historiography in Britain

part |2 pages

PART VI WOMEN AND MUSIC

chapter 16|10 pages

Art Music and Activist Discourse: The Case of the African-American Musician Amelia Tilghman

chapter 17|22 pages

Josephine Lang and the Schumanns