@article{437979,
      author = {Spitzer, John,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437979},
      title = {American orchestras in the nineteenth century [electronic  resource] /},
      publisher = {University of Chicago Press,},
      abstract = {Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have  generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs  we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals,  audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical  experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an  orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer  garden, restaurant, or summer resort than to a concert  hall. And what they heard weren & rsquo;t just symphonic  works & mdash;programs also included opera excerpts and  arrangements, instrumental showpieces, comic numbers, and  medleys of patriotic tunes.},
      recid = {437979},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 493 p.) :},
      address = {Chicago ;},
      year = {2012},
}