Nineteenth-Century Choral song is an in-depth exam of the wealthy repertoire of choral track and the cultural phenomenon of choral track making in the course of the interval. The e-book is split into 3 major sections. the 1st information the appeal to choral making a song and the methods it used to be associated with diverse components of society, and to the function of choral voices within the valuable large-scale genres of the interval: the symphony and opera. A moment part highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks which are a significant a part of the repertoire. the ultimate part provides evaluate and concentration chapters protecting composers, repertoire (both small and bigger works), and function lifestyles in an historic context from over a dozen areas of the realm: Britain and eire, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latin the US, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, Spain, and the us.

This diversified selection of essays brings jointly the paintings of 25 authors, lots of whom have dedicated a lot in their scholarly lives to the composers and track mentioned, giving the reader a full of life and detailed point of view in this major a part of nineteenth-century musical lifestyles.