Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music

Contents

• Translator's note
• 1. Introduction
• 2. What is musical realism?
• 3. 'True reality' and music
• 4. The 'descriptive' and the 'ugly'
• 5. 'Bourgeois realism' and Biedermeier
• 6. Realism as rebellion
• 7. Anti-romanticism
• 8. Realism in Italian opera
• 9. Literature, history and 'history'
• 10. The 'musical novel'
• 11. Realistic melody and dramaturgical construction
• 12. The natural world and the 'folklike tone'
• 13. The dialectics of the concept of reality
• 14. Conclusion
• References
• Index.