The Art of Music and Other Essays
Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994-06-22
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780253311641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Travers Chants is the collection of writings selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies and his opera, Fidelio; Wagner and the partisans of the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols - Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China.