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Contents
- List of illustrations and note on translations
- List of music examples
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: music in the present tense
- 1. 1824: deciphering hyperbole: Stendhal's Vie de Rossini
- 2. 1825: 'Quelque peu theatral': the operatic coronation of Charles X
- 3. 1826: 'Les Grecs sont francais': musical philhellenism in Paris
- 4. 1827: dying for music: Rossini and Moise
- 5. 1828: the discovery of the 'twin styles'
- 6. 1829: looking for the Revolution in Guillaume Tell
- Epilogue: 1830: beyond the Rossinian Moment
- Bibliography
- Index.