So, because we were not fortunate enough to be friends with all these lovely people, our sources are from other lovely people who did their research, so in case you want to know more here are the links;

 

Austen Links:

• Elsbree, Langdon. “Jane Austen and the Dance of Fidelity and Complaisance.” 19th Century Music 15 (1960): 113-136. ​​Jane Austen fact file bibliography:

• https://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/winston-churchill-on-jane-austen/

• http://www.biography.com/news/jane-austen-biography-facts

• https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/blogexcerpts/for-jane-austens-birthday-words-she-first-used/

 

Beethoven Links:

• http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ba-Be/Beethoven-Ludwig-van.html

• Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, Elliot Forbes, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann, and Henry Edward Krehbiel. 1967. Thayer's Life Of Beethoven. 1st ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; 185 [Book]

• Solomon, Maynard. 1977. Beethoven. 1st ed. New York: Schirmer Books; 138 [Book]

 

Donizetti Links:

• Hussey, Dyneley. "Gaetano Donizetti." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. June 15, 2006. Accessed November 05, 2016.  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gaetano-Donizetti.

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-opera-journal/article/the-silencing-of-lucia/FDB920698C033E89D87FCAD2754ED1A4 

 

Dvořák Sources:

• [Author Unknown] “Latest News: From Private Correspondence” The Scotsman November 16th 1894. 7.

• [Author Unknown] “Promenade Concerts.” The Era newspaper. November 21st 1896, 14.

• [Author Unknown] “Queen’s Hall” The Morning Post Tuesday October 27th 1896, 3.

• [Author Unknown] “The Musical World” St James Gazette 16th of November 1896, 12.

• [Author Unknown] “The Second Hans Richter Concert” Pall Mall Gazette. 27th October 1896, 9.

• [Author Unknown] The New York Times. January 3rd 1897.

• Abraham, Gerald. "Verbal Inspiration in Dvořák's Instrumental Music." Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 11, no. Fasc. 1/4 (Akadémiai Kiadó: 1969): 27-34.

• Beckerman, ‘In Search of Czechness’ 19th-Century Music, Vol. 10, No. 1 (University of California Press: Summer, 1986), pp. 64

• Bennett, Anton Dvorak, The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular , Vol. 25, No. 494 (Musical Times Publications Ltd: Apr. 1, 1884), pp.189-192

• Botstein, Leon. "Gustav Mahler’s Vienna." The Mahler Companion (Oxford University Press: 1999) 10.

• Brodbeck, David. ‘Dvorák’s Reception in Liberal Vienna: Language Ordinances, National Property, and the Rhetoric of Deutschtum’ (University of California: 2007)

• Clapham, John, "Dvořák's Unknown Letters on His Symphonic Poems."Music & Letters 56, no. 3/4 (Oxford University Press: 1975): 278.

• Döge, Klaus [nd] Oxford Music Online: Dvořák, Antonín (Leopold).

• Johnson, Stephen Scott. "Narrative and form in Dvorak's symphonic poems based on the folk poetry of Karel Jaromir Erben" ( UMI: 1997). 69.

• Mendl, Robert William Sigismund. "The art of the symphonic poem." The Musical Quarterly 18.3 (Oxford University Press: 1932): 443

• Newmarch, Rose and  Antonín Dvorák ‘Letters of Dvorak to Hans Richter’ The Musical Times (Musical Times Publications LTD: 1932, 796

• Péteri, Lóránt. "Scherzo and the Unheimlich: the Construct of Genre and Feeling in the Long 19th Century." Studia Musicologica 48, no. 3-4 (Akadémiai Kiadó: 2007) 322.

• Stockl-Steinbrunner, The ‘Uncomfortable’ Dvorak: Critical Reaction to the First    Performances of His Symphonic Poems in German Speaking Lands’ Rethinking Dvorak: Views from Five Countries. (Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1996) 203.

• Walker, Alan [nd] par.2, Oxford Music Online: Franz Liszt, Symphonic poems.

 

Classicist vs Romanticist YouTube video:

 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmJofRAB9M

  

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• Beethoven

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