Radice Marc A. Chamber Music. An Essential History

The University Of Michigan Press, 2012. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0-472-02811-5.History of chamber music, outstanding composers, national schools, major works.The Nature of Early Chamber Music.
The Crystallization of Genres during the Golden Age of Chamber Music.
Classical Chamber Music with Wind Instruments.
The Chamber Music of Beethoven.
The Emergence of the Wind Quintet.
Schubert and Musical Aesthetics of the Early Romantic Era.
Prince Louis Ferdinand and Louis Spohr.
Champions of Tradition: Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms.
Nationalism in French Chamber Music of the Late Romantic Era: Franck, Debussy, Saint-Sanns, Faure, and Ravel.
National Schools from the Time of Smetana to the Mid-Twentieth Century.
Nationalism and Tradition: Schoenberg and the Austro-German Avant-Garde.
The Continuation of Tonality in the Twentieth Century.
Strictly Confidential: The Chamber Music of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Two Fugitives from the Soviet Bloc: Gyorgy Ligeti and Karel Husa.
Benchmarks: Chamber Music Masterpieces since circa 1920.
Table of Chamber Pieces According to Ensemble Size.