This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and

This volume brings together new approaches to music history to reveal the interdependence of music and religion in nineteenth-century culture. As composers and

The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and theologians i

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ -

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