Berlioz and the Expressive Power of Music
Author: Charles August Rizzuto
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 68
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Author: Charles August Rizzuto
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian Rushton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-11-24
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521242790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Stephen Rodgers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-05
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0521884047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how Berlioz used musical forms to represent a narrative, and to depict emotions such as madness or love.
Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999-05-15
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0226043746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Hervé Lacombe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-01-12
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780520217195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively history of French opera in its cultural and historical context by one of France's leading musicologists.
Author: Peter Bloom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-19
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521485487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life of Berlioz situates the celebrated French musician in the vibrant and highly politicized musical culture of the periods of the Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, Second Republic, and Second Empire in which he lived and worked as composer, conductor, concert manager, and writer. The author of the Symphonie fantastique was indeed possessed of a fertile and fantastical imagination; but the common image of Berlioz as a misunderstood and mistreated genius obscures both the solidity of his work as a musical architect and the reality of his position as one sometimes favored by those in power. Berlioz is the quintessential romantic composer by dint of the conspicuous intermingling of art and life that marks his musical and literary output. Studying this away from the subjective sentimentality that can still mar studies of the composer in France, serves only to enhance the uncommon radiance of his music and uncommon esprit of his art.
Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0199391955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHector Berlioz was not only a composer, but a renowned writer and critic, and his Memoirs and Evenings with the Orchestra are particularly well-known and loved. This book provides new translations of his criticism in English, taking him from his student days as a participant in musical polemics over Rossini to his first years of mature success.
Author: Francesca Brittan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2024-08-05
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0226837653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner’s estimation, he hovered as a “transient, marvelous exception,” a composer woefully and willfully isolated. In the assessment of German composer Ferdinand Hiller, he was a fleeting comet who “does not belong in our musical solar system,” the likes of whom would never be seen again. For his contemporaries, as for later critics, Berlioz was simply too strange—and too noisy, too loud, too German, too literary, too cavalier with genre and form, and too difficult to analyze. He was, in many ways, a composer without a world. Berlioz and His World takes a deep dive into the composer’s complex legacy, tracing lines between his musical and literary output and the scientific, sociological, technological, and political influences that shaped him. Comprising nine essays covering key facets of Berlioz’s contribution and six short “object lessons” meant as conversation starters, the book reveals Berlioz as a richly intersectional figure. His very difficulty, his tendency to straddle the worlds of composer, conductor, and critic, is revealed as a strength, inviting new lines of cross-disciplinary inquiry and a fresh look at his European and American reception.
Author: David Trippett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1107111250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Author: Peter Bloom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-08-24
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521596381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive view of Berlioz the man, the composer, the critic and the writer.