The following titles provide narrative histories of the development, style, and repertoire of Romantic music. (You can find more in the Music Collection by browsing in the ML196 call number area.)
The Oxford History of Western Music: Music in the Nineteenth Century by 
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music by 
Romantic Music: A Concise History from Schubert to Sibelius by 
Classical and Romantic Performing Practice, 1750-1900 by 
Music Makes the Nation: Nationalist Composers and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Europe by 
The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume III Part A: The European Symphony from ca. 1800 to ca. 1930: Germany and the Nordic countries by 
The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume III, Part B:The European symphony from ca. 1800 to ca. 1930: Great Britain, Russia, and France by 
The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume IV: The Second Golden Age of Viennese Symphony: Brahms, Bruckner, Dvořák, Mahler and Selected Contemporaries by 
