Benedict Taylor is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory (Cambridge, 2011), The Melody of Time (2015) and Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music (2016). He is co-editor of the journal Music & Letters, and the recipient of the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association.

• List of illustrations; List of musical examples and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Chronology; Part I. Horizons: 1. Defining the indefinable: romanticism and music Benedict Taylor; 2. The emergence of romanticism Keith Chapin; Part II. Worlds: 3. Music in romantic literature and poetry Miranda Stanyon; 4. Music, romantic landscape, and the visual Thomas Peattie; 5. Romanticism, the folk, and musical nationalisms Matthew Gelbart; 6. Music, romanticism, and politics Katherine Hambridge; 7. Music and technology John Tresch; 8. Music, magic, and the supernatural Francesca Brittan; 9. A kingdom not of this world: music, religion, art-religion James Garratt; Part III. Aesthetics: 10. Music in early German romantic philosophy Tomás McAuley; 11. Meaning and value in romantic musical aesthetics Alexander Wilfing; 12. Music and romantic interiority Holly Watkins; 13. Music, expression, and the aesthetics of authenticity Karen Leistra-Jones; Part IV. Practices: 14. Romantic languages Julian Horton; 15. Romantic forms Steven Vande Moortele; 16. Romanticism and the ideal of song Lisa Feurzeig; 17. Music staged and unstaged Sarah Hibberd; 18. Romanticism and performance Dana Gooley; Part V. Histories: 19. Musical romanticism as a historiographical construct Nicole Grimes; 20. The end(s) of musical romanticism Sebastian Wedler; Select bibliography; Index.

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