Table of Contents

Translator's note; 1. Introduction; 2. What is musical realism?; 3. 'True reality' and music; 4. The 'descriptive' and the 'ugly'; 5. 'Bourgeois realism' and Biedermeier; 6. Realism as rebellion; 7. Anti-romanticism; 8. Realism in Italian opera; 9. Literature, history and 'history'; 10. The 'musical novel'; 11. Realistic melody and dramaturgical construction; 12. The natural world and the 'folklike tone'; 13. The dialectics of the concept of reality; 14. Conclusion; References; Index.

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