Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century

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This superb volume is a comprehensive and indispensible guide to choral music throughout the nineteenth century. It critically explores and examines every style and level of complexity in the period's music, including works by Beethoven, Brahms, Verdi, Faure, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Bruch, Mahler, and many others. With its thoroughly researched, yet entirely accessible text - accompanied by a multitude of photographs and musical examples, as well as appendices which list works organized by type of chorus/accompaniment - this is an essential resource for choral singers, conductors, and music lovers everywhere.

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Nick Strimple is a composer, conductor, and member of the choral faculty at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. He is also music director of the Choral Society of Southern California.