Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author/editor of nine books, including Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010), After Mahler (2013), and Aesthetics of Music (2014).

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• 1.Introduction: Getting SentimentalPart 1: Spaces2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn and in the lounge. 3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music in the nineteenth-century concert hall.Part 2: Genres4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel.5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second ViolinConcertos of Bartók and Szymanowski.Part 3: Psychologies6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes’s Schumann and Schumann’s ‘Chopin’.7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: ‘screen memories’, a Schubert lied and thevoice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory’s The Remains of the Day.Part 4: Appropriations8. Ellington, Liszt, and Chopin’s Death Bed. 9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim’s ‘Insensatez’, and sentimentalecology.10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow’s ‘Could it be Magic?’ Part 5: Sympathies11. Make it ‘Easy’? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt Bacharach and HalDavid.12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb.Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer13. Górecki’s Tears/ Our Tears.

Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author/editor of nine books, including Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010), After Mahler (2013), and Aesthetics of Music (2014).

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• 1.Introduction: Getting SentimentalPart 1: Spaces2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn and in the lounge. 3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music in the nineteenth-century concert hall.Part 2: Genres4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel.5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second ViolinConcertos of Bartók and Szymanowski.Part 3: Psychologies6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes’s Schumann and Schumann’s ‘Chopin’.7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: ‘screen memories’, a Schubert lied and thevoice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory’s The Remains of the Day.Part 4: Appropriations8. Ellington, Liszt, and Chopin’s Death Bed. 9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim’s ‘Insensatez’, and sentimentalecology.10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow’s ‘Could it be Magic?’ Part 5: Sympathies11. Make it ‘Easy’? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt Bacharach and HalDavid.12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb.Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer13. Górecki’s Tears/ Our Tears.

Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author/editor of nine books, including Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010), After Mahler (2013), and Aesthetics of Music (2014).

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• 1.Introduction: Getting SentimentalPart 1: Spaces2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn and in the lounge. 3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music in the nineteenth-century concert hall.Part 2: Genres4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel.5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second ViolinConcertos of Bartók and Szymanowski.Part 3: Psychologies6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes’s Schumann and Schumann’s ‘Chopin’.7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: ‘screen memories’, a Schubert lied and thevoice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory’s The Remains of the Day.Part 4: Appropriations8. Ellington, Liszt, and Chopin’s Death Bed. 9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim’s ‘Insensatez’, and sentimentalecology.10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow’s ‘Could it be Magic?’ Part 5: Sympathies11. Make it ‘Easy’? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt Bacharach and HalDavid.12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb.Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer13. Górecki’s Tears/ Our Tears.