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Davis, Mary E. "Classical Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism". University of California Press. 2006. Print. This book is all about Classical Chic during the modernism movement. There are many different chapters including an entire chapter on Coco Chanel. The chapter started out by talking about she influenced the 1920s and the 1930s. How she turned around the fashion of the time. She kept the ideas of the "liberated women" and applied it to all of her work. It goes through each of her steps to how she became the iconic fashion designer she is today. Also, each of the types of article of clothing that made her so iconic. It then goes on to talk about how the label as taken over after her death.

Rosen, Charles. "The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven." 1 (1927): 379-512. Google Scholar Books. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article talks about Beethoven's transition from the post-Classical period into the Romantic Era. His influence on both periods is also greatly discussed. An overview of Beethoven's life as a child and his adult years is also mentioned. Beethoven's music style and the originality of his work are discussed. Mozart and Haydn, other composers of the Romantic Era, are critiqued in this article along with Beethoven.

Prod'homme, J. G. and Martens, Frederick M. "Beethoven's Intellectual Education." The Musical Quarterly 13.2 (1927):169-82. JSTOR. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. "The Music Quarterly" is about the Romantic musician Beethoven. It specifically discusses his educational background. The article discribes how Beethoven was acutally not highly educated in many subject areas. Rather, Beethoven was educated in music and in playing various instruments such as the violin. His father and grandfather were responsible for giving Beethoven this vast amount of musical knowledge. At such a young age, Beethoven was able to play many instruments and read music.