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MUTH 111: Listening to Revolutions: History, Arts, and Performance II

Book citation

How to analyze a book citation

Plantinga, Leon. "Beethoven, Napoleon, and Political Romanticism." In The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music, edited by Jane F. Fulcher, 484-500. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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