Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural influences. The building of community through choral singing / Celia Applegate -- Vox humana : choral voices in the nineteenth-century symphony / D. Kern Holoman -- The nineteenth-century opera chorus / Steven Huebner -- Selected masterworks from the choral-orchestral repertoire. Masses and requiems / D. Kern Holoman -- Works with secular and non-liturgical texts / D. Kern Holoman -- The choral repertoire large and small. Choral music and choral singing in Germany and Austria : an overview / Ryan Minor -- Ludwig van Beethoven / David B. Levy -- Fanny Hensel / R. Larry Todd -- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Jeffrey S. Sposato -- Robert Schumann / Roe-Min Kok -- Anton Bruckner and the Austrian choral tradition : his mass in F minor / Paul Hawkshaw -- Johannes Brahms / Virginia Hancock -- Choral music and music-making in France / Clair Rowden -- Luigi Cherubini and Augusta Holm�es / Mark Seto -- Hector Berlioz / Donna M. Di Grazia -- F�elicien David, Charles Gounod, and Jules Massenet / Clair Rowden -- Camille Saint-Sa�ens / Lesley A. Wright -- Gabriel Faur�e / Carlo Caballero -- A tale of survival : choral music in Italy / Francesco Izzo -- Britain and Ireland / James Garratt -- The Nordic world : Scandinavia and Finland / Harald Herresthal -- Eastern Europe : introductory thoughts / Barbara Milewski -- Poland / Barbara Milewski -- The Czech lands : Bohemia and Moravia / Judith Mabary -- Anton�in Dvor�ak / Alan Houtchens -- Hungary / Paul A. Bertagnolli -- The choral music of Franz Liszt / Paul A. Bertagnolli -- Russia / Vladimir Morosan -- Russian choral repertoire / Vladimir Morosan -- The Philippines, Latin America, and Spain / Walter A. Clark -- The United States / N. Lee Orr.