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Toward a history of American orchestras in the nineteenth century / Deane L. Root

Ubiquity and diversity

The ubiquity and diversity of nineteenth-century American orchestras / John Spitzer

Building the American symphony orchestra: the nineteenth-century roots of a twenty-first-century musical institution / Mark Clague

Modeling music: early organizational structures of American women's orchestras / Anna-Lise P. Santella

American orchestras and their unions in the nineteenth century / John Spitzer

The orchestra and the American city

Orchestras: local versus national / John Spitzer

Invisible instruments: theater orchestras in New York, 1850-1900 / John Graziano

Beethoven and beer: orchestral music in German beer gardens in nineteenth-century New York city / John Koegel and Jonas Westover

Performances to "permanence": orchestra building in late nineteenth-century Cincinnati / Karen Ahlquist

Critic and conductor in 1860s Chicago: George P. Upton, Hans Balatka, and cultural capitalism / James Deaville

Amateur and professional, permanent and transient: orchestras in the District of Columbia 1877-1905 / Patrick Warfield

Conductors, promoters, patrons

Marketing the American orchestra / John Spitzer

Bernard Ullman and the business of orchestras in mid-nineteenth-century New York / Bethany S. Goldberg

John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra: a help or a hindrance? / Mary Wallace Davidson

The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877-78: background, instrumentation, programming and critical reception

Gender and the germanians: "art-loving ladies" in nineteenth-century concert life / Nancy Newman

America and Europe

Orchestras: American and European / John Spitzer

"A concentration of talent on our musical horizon": the 1853-54 American tour by Jullien's extraordinary orchestra / Katherine K. Preston

Ureli Corelli Hill: his European travels and the creation of the New York Philharmonic / Barbara Haws

Orchestral repertory

Orchestral repertory: highbrow and lowbrow / John Spitzer

Orchestral programs in Boston, 1842-55, in European perspective / William Weber

Theodore Thomas and the cultivation of American music / Brenda Nelson-Strauss

Thinking about serious music in New York, 1842-82 / Adrienne Fried Block

Afterword: coming of age / Ronald G. Walters.

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