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Author : Peter Bloom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521028566
This book contains essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great musician's life and work.
Author : Jeffrey Alan Langford,Jane Denker Graves
Publisher : New York : Garland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCAL:B4284164
A selective, annotated bibliography comprising 900 of the most significant pieces of Berlioz research and criticism that have appeared. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : William Henry Hadow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Composers
ISBN : IOWA:31858043927072
Author : Peter Bloom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107494060
Still chiefly known as the extravagant composer of the Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz was an artist caught in the crossfire between the academic classicism of the French musical establishment and the romantic modernism of the Parisian musical scene. He was a thinker in an age that invented both the religion of art and the notion of the 'genius' who preached and practised it. This Companion contains essays by eminent scholars on Berlioz's place in nineteenth-century French cultural life, on his principal compositions (symphonies, overtures, operas, sacred works, songs), on his major writings (a delightful volume of memoires, a number of short stories, large quantities of music criticism, an orchestration treatise), on his direct and indirect encounters with other famous musicians (Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner), and on his legacy in France. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of his life and a usefully annotated bibliography.
Author : William Henry Hadow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89003747961
Author : D. Kern Holoman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674067789
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 : Fulvia Morabito,Michela Niccolai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121326206
Author : Stephen Rodgers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521884044
This book examines how Berlioz used musical forms to represent a narrative, and to depict emotions such as madness or love.
Author : Peter Bloom
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 158046209X
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 : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199391950
As a composer, Hector Berlioz embodied his century as the quintessential Romantic artist. Niccolo Paganini called him "Beethoven's only heir," and for a young Richard Wagner, he was dazzling as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. But Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, and for decades Berlioz scholars have stressed the need for a good English-language anthology of his criticism. Featuring new translations and commentary by Katherine Kolb and Samuel N. Rosenberg,Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837 is that volume. Berlioz's centrality as a critic results from his literary brilliance, his location in Paris -- the music capital of the nineteenth century -- and his 28-year tenure at the powerfulJournal des debats. As one of its founding editors and principal writers, Berlioz contributed about 250 articles to the publication.Berlioz on Music comprises articles from the first 14 years of Berlioz's public writings, given in chronological order and, with few exceptions, in their entirety. Following chronology affords an overview of Berlioz's evolution as critic and of a key phase in the development of modern musical culture. The volume also presents explanatory data in engagingly composed introductions and footnotes, which elucidate Berlioz's references to persons, musical and literary works, historical events, and more. The reader is allowed to follow musical events during one of the richest periods in French cultural history, including the revolutionary decade surrounding 1830, a year marked by Victor Hugo's victory for the Romantics in the Classical bastion of the Théâtre-Français, by the premiere of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony, and by the toppling of the Restoration monarchy. The result is an engaging collection of Berlioz's lively prose, presented with scholarly rigor and rendered in accessible English. Music historians, both professional and amateur, as well 19th century European history enthusiasts will findBerlioz on Music a compelling introduction to one of the richest periods of French culture.
Author : Melinda P. O'Neal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810886070
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.
Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521242797
This book is an analytical and critical study of Berlioz's unique musical style. It does not undertake to analyse all his works, but rather to separate characteristic elements and observe them in action. Berlioz's writings and those of his critics are called upon to help focus the discussion. Part I includes material on the sources of Berlioz's idiosyncrasy and a discussion of fundamental pitch elements. Part II pursues this discussion into textural, contrapuntal and orchestral features, and considers melody and rhythm. Part III deals with whole musical forms, vocal and instrumental. The book includes copious musical illustration, much of it analytical reduction, and the expressive purpose of the features analysed is fully considered. The conclusion is that Berlioz's musical language is inescapably peculiar, though not necessarily inept; features which seem inexplicable in the light of compositional theory nearly always contribute to the musical and expressive exactness of communication.
Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521377676
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 : David Cairns
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141991412
Berlioz was one of the towering figures of Romanticism: not only was he a great and revolutionary composer, but also the finest composer of his day and an outstanding critic and writer. Yet throughout his life he struggled for money and his music was persistently reviled in his native France. With exceptional insight and sympathy, David Cairns draws together the major strands of Berlioz's life: his tempestuous marriage to the actress Harriet Smithson; the genesis of his famous works, including the Requiem, Romeo and Juliet and his crowning masterpiece The Trojans; his friendships with Mendelssohn, Liszt, Princess Wittgenstein and Wagner; and, finally, his last years haunted once again by personal tragedy. Here, as never before, is Berlioz the artist - and the man.
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226043746
In this delightful and now classic narrative, written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, readers are made privy to 25 highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers.