John Daverio
Nineteenth-Century Music and the German Romantic Ideology.
Schirmer Books, 1993. First printing. 0028706757  xiii/274 pages.
Volume is bound in dark green cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are as new. Jacket is preserved in paper-backed mylar cover. 
"At a time when the word "Romantic" is used to mean so many things that it is in danger of losing all meaning, this is a provocative study of one of the crucial formulation of Romantic thought and what it reveals about the music of the Romantic repertory.
An early and vital contribution to the Romantic movement was the philosophy of Friedrich Schlegel, who used "romantic" to designate works of art that seek to combine and transcend traditional forms and genres. John Daverio argues that nineteenth-century composers reflected a truly new ideal in the value they placed on intentionally fragmented or incomplete structures, and on works that crossed boundaries of genre." (Dust jacket text).