Current Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
  19th-Century Music Jul 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1: i–i.
• Front Matter
  19th-Century Music Jul 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1: ii–ii.
• Local Color: Donizetti's Il furioso in Naples
  19th-Century Music Jul 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1: 3–25. Abstract This article examines the furore aroused by Il furioso's simultaneous triple Neapolitan premiere in 1834. Situating the opera's unusual reception in the context of the complex and vibrant theatrical life of Naples, I describe how the coexistence ...
• Saint Elsewhere: German and English Reactions to Mendelssohn's Paulus
  19th-Century Music Jul 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1: 26–51. Abstract This article examines German and English reactions to Felix Mendelssohn's 1836 oratorio, Paulus. German Protestant audiences recognized Paulus's devotional, or spiritual, quality, which derived from its incorporation of well-known Lutheran ...
• Après une Lecture de Liszt: Virtuosity and Werktreue in the “Dante” Sonata
  19th-Century Music Jul 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1: 52–93. Abstract The European press of the late 1830s indicates a glaring disparity between Liszt's questionable status as a composer and his eminence as a virtuoso performer. The staggered compositional history of one particular piano work, Après une lecture du ...
• Ambiguous Speech and Eloquent Silence: The Queerness of Tchaikovsky's Songs
  19th-Century Music Jul 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1: 94–128. Abstract This article considers a number of Tchaikovsky's songs—specifically those with texts by Apukhtin, Romanov, Heine, Goethe, and Tchaikovsky himself—to explore how silence constitutes a powerful yet elusive form of expression. It argues that ...
• Contributors
  19th-Century Music Jul 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1: 129–129.
• Directions to Contributors
  19th-Century Music Jul 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1: 130–130.