Cultural influences. The building of community through choral singing / Vox humana : choral voices in the nineteenth-century symphony / The nineteenth-century opera chorus / Selected masterworks from choral-orchestral repertoire. Masses & requiems. Beethoven, Missa solemnis ; Berlioz, Grande messe des morts ; Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem ; Verdi, Messa da requiem ; Fauré, Requiem / Works with secular and non-liturgical texts. Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust ; Mendelssohn, Elijah ; Dvořák, Stabat Mater ; Elgar, The dream of Gerontius ; Mahler, Symphony no. 8 / The choral repertoire large and small. Choral music and choral singing in Germany and Austria : an overview / Ludwig van Beethoven / Fanny Hensel / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Robert Schumann / Anton Bruckner and the Austrian choral tradition : his Mass in F minor / Johannes Brahms / Choral music and music making in France / Luigi Cherubini and Augusta Holmès / Hector Berlioz / Félicien David, Charles Gounod, and Jules Massenet / Camille Saint-Saëns / Gabriel Fauré / A tale of survival : choral music in Italy / Britain and Ireland / The Nordic world : Scandinavia and Finland / Eastern Europe : introductory thoughts / Poland / The Czech lands : Bohemia and Moravia / Antonín Dvorák / Hungary / The choral music of Franz Liszt / Russia / Russian choral repertoire / The Philippines, Latin America, and Spain / The United States