David Trippett & Benjamin Walton 
Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination [PDF ebook] 

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Philip Ross Bullock looks at the life and works of Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940), the leading authority on Russian music and culture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Although Newm …

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