Hugo Wolf and his Mörike songs by Youens, Susan

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Essays on literature and music (1985-2013) by Walter Bernhart by Bernhart, Walter

Table of Contents: “…'Die lustigen Weiber' proben den Aufstand: Transzendiertes Biedermeier in Otto Nicolais Oper [2005] /…”
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Leonard Bernstein : the political life of an American musician by Seldes, Barry, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Young American : Bernstein at Harvard -- The forties : ascent and blacklist -- American Biedermeier : 1951-1959 -- The long sixties : 1960-1973 -- Norton lectures : 1973 -- Bernstein at sea : 1974-1990 -- Understanding Bernstein.…”
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Vienna : a Cultural History. by Parsons, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Some Sights Associated with Maria Theresia and Joseph IIChapter Eighteen: BIEDERMEIER VIENNA; The World of Biedermeier; Some Sights Associated with Biedermeier Culture; Chapter Nineteen: FROM REVOLUTION TO RINGSTRAßE: THE GRÜNDERZEIT (FOUNDERS PERIOD) AND RINGSTAßEN ERA; The Strauss Dynasty; The Ringstrassen Era; Musical Innovation and Rivalries in Ringstrassen Vienna; Historicist Buildings along the Ringstrasse; Chapter Twenty: FIN-DE-SIÈCLE VIENNA; The Vienna Secession; Erotic Vienna; The Realists; The Coffee-house Literati; Some Sights Associated with fin-desiècle Vienna.…”
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Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music by Steinberg, Michael P.

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Preface; INTRODUCTION; Staging Subjectivity in the Mozart / Da Ponte Operas; Beethoven: Heroism and Abstraction; Canny and Uncanny Histories in Biedermeier Music; The Family Romances of Music Drama; The Voice of the People at the Moment of the Nation; Minor Modernisms; Index.…”
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Music in other words : Victorian conversations by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in nineteenth-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- "Tadpole pleasures" : Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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Music in other words : Victorian conversations by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in nineteenth-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- "Tadpole pleasures" : Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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Art in an age of civil struggle, 1848-1871 by Boime, Albert

Table of Contents: “…Springtime and winter of the people in France, 1848-1852 -- Radical realism and its offspring -- Radical realism continued -- The pre-Raphaelites and the 1848 revolutions -- The Macchia and the Risorgimento -- Cultural inflections of slavery and manifest destiny in America -- Biedermeier culture and the revolutions of 1848 -- The Second Empire's official realism -- Edouard Manet: man about town -- The Franco-Prussian war, the French commune, and the threshold of Impressionism -- Coda: Menzel and the transition to empire.…”
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The material culture of German Texans by Hafertepe, Kenneth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Floor plans and domestic realities: the organization of space in German-Texan houses -- The German-Texan log house -- The German-Texan fachwerk house -- The German-Texan rock house, 1845-1895 -- Victorian mansions and Sunday houses -- Biedermeier and beyond: German cabinetmakers in Texas -- Inside the German-Texas house -- Public buildings and social centers -- Houses of worship: German-Texan churches -- Final resting places: graveyards and grave markers -- Afterword: preserving and interpreting the material culture of German Texans.…”
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Ladislav Fuks by Linhartová, Ladislava Součková

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Obsah; Úvodní, teoretická část; Předmět práce, metoda, pojmosloví; Biedermeier jako životní styl a hodnotový proud; Manifestace textuality a literárnosti; literárnost a intertextualita; Genettovo pojetí intertextuality -- transtextualita; Intertextualita románu Vévodkyně a kuchařka; Citované texty; Aluze v textu Vévodkyně a kuchařky; Odkazy směřující do reality -- zrcadlení, bytí v masce; Narážky na texty -- hra motivů; Funkce citací a aluzí; Paratexty románu Vévodkyně a kuchařka; Peritext "Ladislav Fuks"; Motta a titul -- vzájemné zrcadlení; Autorská poznámka -- dohoda o způsobu čtení…”
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Die kulturellen Einigungen Europas und deren Verfallsprozesse in den letzten drei Jahrhunderten

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Titelei; Impressum; INHALT; 1 Wie ich vorgehen will; 2 Ursprungsmythos und das antike Europa: Homer, Augustus und Vergil; 3 Europa: Verfall I und Sehnsucht nach Einheit; 4 Zwischenstaatliche geistige Einheit in anderen Erdteilen; 5 Der europäische Barock und sein Scheitern durch die Aufklärung; 6 Biedermeier, Realpolitik und Realismus: Restauration Europas I; 7 Realismus und Realpolitik: Bismarck und Fontane, Restauration Europas II; 8 Expressionismus und Faschismus: Der Zerfall Europas II; 9 Wiederaufbau und Adenauer nach 1945: Eine fast geglückte Restauration…”
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Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state by Arens, Katherine, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Letters to the Ruling Class: Enlightening Two National Cultures -- Chapter 2: Classicism and the Tyranny of the Moderns: How Grillparzer Resists Weimar -- Chapter 3: Revolution from the Prompter's Box: Grillparzer and Nestroy in Vienna -- Chapter 4: Eclipses, Floods, and Other Biedermeier Catastrophes: The theatrum mundi of Revolution -- Chapter 5: Hofmannsthal's European Revolution: The Space of Common Culture -- Chapter 6: Schnitzer and the Space of Public Discourse in Fin de siècle Vienna -- Chapter 7: The Persistence of Kasperl in Memory: Artmann, Bayer and Handke -- Chapter 8: Lost Maps, Lost Europe?…”
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Wiener Zaubertradition : Theatrale Aspekte der Zauberkunst im 19. Jahrhundert by Gruber, Christian

Table of Contents: “…Jahrhundert; INHALTSVERZEICHNIS; EINLEITUNG; I) DEFINITION DER ZAUBERKUNST UND DES ZAUBERKÜNSTLERS; 1) KURZE DEFINITION UND ABGRENZUNG; 2) DER EFFEKT DES MAGIERS; 3) ZWEI BEISPIELE DES WUNDERGLAUBENS; 4) GRUNDEFFEKTE UND SPARTEN; 5) ANDERE TÄUSCHUNGS- UND VERWANDTE UNTERHALTUNGSKÜNSTE; 6) CHARAKTERISTIKA DES ZAUBERKÜNSTLERS; 7) MANIPULATION DURCH SPRACHE; 8) ZUR ROLLE ‚MAGIER'; II) LEOPOLD LUDWIG DÖBLER (1801-1864) DER BÜHNENMAGIER LUDWIG DÖBLER; 1) BIEDERMEIER -- WIEN -- ERSTE HÄLFTE DES 19. JAHRHUNDERTS…”
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Kitchen and Bath Design Principles Elements, Form, Styles. by Wolford, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…American Country (or Rustic) Styles -- American Country/American Colonial-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Shaker-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Spanish Mission-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Neoclassic Styles -- Neoclassic-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Swedish Neoclassic -- Biedermeier -- Victorian Period and the Rise of Industrialization -- Victorian-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Summary -- Review Questions -- CHAPTER 6 HISTORIC STYLE INFLUENCES: LATE NINETHEENTH CENTURY AND BEYOND -- Arts and Crafts -- Arts and Crafts-Inspired Kitchens and Bathrooms -- Art Nouveau…”
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