Digital Resources

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Karl Marx

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Kant's Theory of Judgment (incl. Idealism)

• Realism

Historicism

• Portrait of Henry Purcell from the late 19th century

• Arrangement (1878) of a chorus from Rameau's opera Castor et Pollux (1737) for piano

• Print celebrating Rameau's centenary

Further Reading

Links to Worldcat entries except where specified.

• Burford, Mark. “Hanslick’s Idealist Materialism.” 19th-Century Music 30 (2006), 166–81. [link to JSTOR]

• Burrow, J. W. The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000.  

• Clapham, John. Dvořák. New York: Norton, 1979.  

• Dahlhaus, Carl. Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music, Mary Whittall, trans. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.  

• Evans, R. J. W. and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, eds. The Revolutions in Europe, 1848–1849: From Reform to Reaction. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 

• Helmholtz, Hermann. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music, 4th ed., Alexander J. Ellis, trans. London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1912. Also available on: Google Books

• Helmholtz, Hermann. Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays, David Cahan, ed. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

• Iggers, Georg G. The German Conception of History: The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present, rev. ed. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.  

• Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason, Norman Kemp Smith, trans. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965.  

• Leyda, Jay and Sergei Bertensson, eds. and trans. The Musorgsky Reader: A Life of Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky in Letters and Documents. New York: Norton, 1947.  

• Needham, Gerald. “Naturalism.” In Grove Art Online/Oxford Art Online.  

• Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner, Walter Kaufmann, trans. New York: Vintage, 1967. 

• Rosen, Charles, and Henri Zerner, Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of Nineteenth-Century Art. New York: Viking, 1984.

• Schwartz, Vanessa R. and Jeannene M. Przyblyski, eds. The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.  

• Taruskin, Richard. Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.  

• Taruskin, Richard. "Nationalism." In Grove Music Online/Oxford Music Online. 

• Youens, Susan. Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.  

• Zola, Emile. Nana. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931.