Berlioz Studies

Berlioz Studies
Author: Peter Bloom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521028561

This book contains essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great musician's life and work.

The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz

The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz
Author: Peter Bloom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000-08-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521596381

Provides a comprehensive view of Berlioz the man, the composer, the critic and the writer.

Berlioz

Berlioz
Author: D. Kern Holoman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 710
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674067783

A captivating and sumptuously illustrated biography, Berlioz is not only a complete account of the Romantic era composer, but also an acute analysis of his compositions and a description of his work as a conductor and critic. 139 halftones, 3 maps, 160 musical examples.

Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz
Author: Francesca Brittan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107136326

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Berlioz

Berlioz
Author: Julian Rushton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1994-08-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521377676

Berlioz's 'dramatic symphony' Roméo et Juliette is regarded by many as his finest work; it is certainly among the most original. It is played less often than his earlier symphonies, because it requires solo voices and chorus; yet at its heart is some of the most inspired orchestral music of the nineteenth century. This book summarises the complex genesis of the work before examining the music closely and always with a view to understanding its dramatic implications. The early and later critical reception is quoted and discussed and Julian Rushton concludes by suggesting a way of hearing the work which recognises the value of its mixed genre. The complete libretto is provided in both English and French.

Berlioz

Berlioz
Author: Peter Bloom
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781580462099

Presented in six contrasting and complementary pairs, the essays treat such matters as Berlioz's aesthetics and what it means to write about the meaning of his music; the political implications of his fiction and the affinities of his projects as composer and as critic; what the Germans thought of his work before his travels in Germany and what the English made of him when he visited their capital city. We learn in explicit detail how Berlioz deployed the mezzo-soprano voice, what he seems to have written immediately after encountering Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (a surprise), and where he benefited from Beethoven in what later became Romeo et Juliette.

Form, Program, and Metaphor in the Music of Berlioz

Form, Program, and Metaphor in the Music of Berlioz
Author: Stephen Rodgers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2009-03-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139478877

Few aspects of Berlioz's style are more idiosyncratic than his handling of musical form. This book, the first devoted solely to the topic, explores how his formal strategies are related to the poetic and dramatic sentiments that were his very reason for being. Rodgers draws upon Berlioz's ideas about musical representation and on the ideas that would have influenced him, arguing that the relationship between musical and extra-musical narrative in Berlioz's music is best construed as metaphorical rather than literal - 'intimate' but 'indirect' in Berlioz's words. Focusing on a type of varied-repetitive form that Berlioz used to evoke poetic ideas such as mania, obsession, and meditation, the book shows how, far from disregarding form when pushing the limits of musical evocation, Berlioz harnessed its powers to convey these ideas even more vividly.

Experiencing Berlioz

Experiencing Berlioz
Author: Melinda P. O'Neal
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-02-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810886073

Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener’s Companion is an in-depth entrée into the sound world of Hector Berlioz, recognized today as one of the most profoundly original and engaging composers in 19th-century Europe. Melinda O’Neal offers the non-specialist a pathway into the underlying allure of Berlioz's music. His views on rehearsing and conducting, bumpy career ride and failures, the journey of a work through revisions and editions, and historical performance practices provide a backdrop to discussions of his most significant works. As O’Neal addresses the motivation and conception, sonic atmosphere, and compositional strategies of key works, she provides a new multifaceted experience not only to music historians and performers but also to any amateur music lover who has ever been entranced by Berlioz’s undeniable musical veracity. As the listener interacts with Berlioz's music, the ear's curiosity and imagination will take flight.

The Music of Berlioz

The Music of Berlioz
Author: Julian Rushton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN: 9780198167389

Ths text ffers an overall assessment of Berlioz's musical achievement as we approach the bicentary of his birth in 2003. This is a full-length musical study of the composer taking into account the rediscovered Messe solennelle.