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Experiencing Berlioz

Melinda P. O'Neal
Experiencing Berlioz Book PDF

Author : Melinda P. O'Neal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810886070

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Experiencing Berlioz by Melinda P. O'Neal Pdf

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.

Berlioz

David Cairns
Berlioz Book PDF

Author : David Cairns
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520240588

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Berlioz by David Cairns Pdf

Praise for Berlioz, Volume I "We now have a biography that not only takes in the immense documentation of Berlioz's early life but goes far beyond it in piecing together an incomparably rich portrait of the man and his milieu. . . . The picture is so vivid and the prose so magnetic that not a word seems wasted. . . . Cairns's biography of Berlioz must take its place with the handful of great lives of composers, such as Thayer's Beethoven, Newman's Wagner, and Walker's Wolf."--Hugh MacDonald, The Listener "Even at this halfway stage, [Cairns's] Berlioz stands as one of the great biographies of our day, and also one of the great feats of literary sympathy with an artistic genius, filled with a love, knowledge, and understanding of his subject that flame up on every page."--Max Loppert, Financial Times "This biography is kindled by sympathy and enthusiasm for its subject, and is written with a lifelong professional experience of Berlioz behind it. It is also beautifully and interestingly written. The chapters flow together like Berlioz's own harmonic changes, and with equal resonance."--Roger Norrington, Independent

Experiencing Mahler

Arved Ashby
Experiencing Mahler Book PDF

Author : Arved Ashby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538104873

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Experiencing Mahler by Arved Ashby Pdf

Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span of human experience. He introduced themes of love, nature, the chasmic depth of midnight, making peace with death, facing rebirth, seeking one’s creator, and being at one with God. Arved Ashby offers the non-specialist a general introduction into Mahler’s seemingly unbounded energy to investigate the elements that make each work an experiential adventure—one that has redefined the symphonic genre in new ways. In addition to the standard nine symphonies, Ashby discusses Das Lied von der Erde, the three most commonly heard song sets (the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, and Rückert-Lieder), and the unfinished Tenth Symphony (in Cooke’s edition). Experiencing Mahler is a far-reaching and often provocative search for meaning in the music of one of the most beloved composers of all time.

Experiencing Debussy

Teresa Davidian
Experiencing Debussy Book PDF

Author : Teresa Davidian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442271463

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Experiencing Debussy by Teresa Davidian Pdf

Claude Debussy holds a place as a one of the most recognizable and influential composers in the classical music. Debussy forged a new and influential sound for the twentieth century with his remarkable harmonies, fluid rhythms, airy textures, and an instinct for mystery and beauty. In Experiencing Debussy: A Listener’s Companion, Teresa Davidian welcomes readers into the infectious appeal of Debussy’s major works to consider how they can still attract and move audiences. In such works as the hauntingly beautiful Clair de Lune and the groundbreaking Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Davidian looks beneath the surface of the music to explain its power, all the while drawing connections between different pieces to place them securely within the context of Debussy’s life and times. Written in an accessible style, Experiencing Debussy provides an engaging tour through Debussy’s works for the concertgoers, movie buffs, performers, and students regardless of musical background.

The Classical Music Experience

Julius H. Jacobson
The Classical Music Experience Book PDF

Author : Julius H. Jacobson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Compact discs
ISBN : 9781402248092

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The Classical Music Experience by Julius H. Jacobson Pdf

Covers sixty of the world's most celebrated composers, from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to Tchaikovsky, Gershwin and Bernstein. It weaves five hundred years of history and music into a rich tapestry of sound and story.

The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz

Inge van Rij
The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz Book PDF

Author : Inge van Rij
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521896467

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The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz by Inge van Rij Pdf

Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

The Music of Berlioz

Julian Rushton
The Music of Berlioz Book PDF

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198167385

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The Music of Berlioz by Julian Rushton Pdf

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz

Peter Bloom
The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz Book PDF

Author : Peter Bloom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521596386

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The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz by Peter Bloom Pdf

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

Form, Program, and Metaphor in the Music of Berlioz

Stephen Rodgers
Form Program and Metaphor in the Music of Berlioz Book PDF

Author : Stephen Rodgers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139478878

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Form, Program, and Metaphor in the Music of Berlioz by Stephen Rodgers Pdf

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.

Program Music

Jonathan Kregor
Program Music Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Kregor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107032521

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Program Music by Jonathan Kregor Pdf

This accessible introduction is the first English-language book in a generation to cover program music as idea and repertoire.

Berlioz

Peter Bloom
Berlioz Book PDF

Author : Peter Bloom
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 158046209X

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Berlioz by Peter Bloom Pdf

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.

Berlioz

David Cairns
Berlioz Book PDF

Author : David Cairns
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141991405

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Berlioz by David Cairns Pdf

No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz. David Cairns draws on a wealth of family papers to recreate in authentic and intimate detail the provincial milieu of Berlioz's boyhood, showing how the son of a village doctor was already transforming himself into the composer of the Fantastic Symphony. Berlioz's desperate attempts to win his father's approval for his vocation, his struggles to establish himself on the Parisian musical scene, and his passionate pursuit of love are all brought vividly to life in this first volume of David Cairn's award-winning biography.

Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

Francesca Brittan
Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz Book PDF

Author : Francesca Brittan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107136328

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Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz by Francesca Brittan Pdf

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

The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works

Gary A. Smook
The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works Book PDF

Author : Gary A. Smook
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781525537851

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The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works by Gary A. Smook Pdf

His fascinating exploration takes you inside the rich music and colorful lives of the world’s greatest classical composers. From Bach to Stravinsky and beyond, you will learn how the unique life stories of these gifted composers are reflected in the musical masterpieces that we enjoy to this day. Designed as an introductory book on classical music, this comprehensive collection presents biographical snapshots of the major composers in the context of distinct historical and stylistic periods and in relation to their notable contemporaries. Special attention is given to recognizing their prominent musical works. The book delineates the many forms of instrumental and vocal music; and it explores the “basics” of tonality, musical structure, performance criteria, the orchestra and its instruments, orchestration, chamber music, and the cataloguing of musical works. As well, the newcomer to classical music will find advice on building a musical library. This book is an excellent source of information about classical music in a unique and entertaining format. It will help lay the foundation for a lifelong love of classical music, through the great musical heritage of these fine composers.

Berlioz

D. Kern Holoman
Berlioz Book PDF

Author : D. Kern Holoman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674067789

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Berlioz by D. Kern Holoman Pdf

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.