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| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| Author | : William Henry Hadow |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1911 |
| Genre | : Composers |
| ISBN | : |
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| Author | : Inge van Rij |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2015-02-19 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1316239632 |
Berlioz frequently explored other worlds in his writings, from the imagined exotic enchantments of New Zealand to the rings of Saturn where Beethoven's spirit was said to reside. The settings for his musical works are more conservative, and his adventurousness has instead been located in his mastery of the orchestra, as both orchestrator and conductor. Inge van Rij's book takes a new approach to Berlioz's treatment of the orchestra by exploring the relationship between these two forms of control – the orchestra as abstract sound, and the orchestra as collective labour and instrumental technology. Van Rij reveals that the negotiation between worlds characteristic of Berlioz's writings also plays out in his music: orchestral technology may be concealed or ostentatiously displayed; musical instruments might be industrialised or exoticised; and the orchestral musicians themselves move between being a society of distinctive individuals and being a machine played by Berlioz himself.
