Symphonie Fantastique

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486298900
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symphonie fantastique written by Hector Berlioz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterpiece of "program" music — a genre invented by the composer — an obsessed musician is overcome by increasingly bizarre visions of his lover. This miniature score version is handy, inexpensive, and perfect for use in the classroom or concert hall.

Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300091052
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Nights written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.

Author : Nicholas Temperley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symphonie Fantastique written by Nicholas Temperley and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009084380
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique written by Julian Rushton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a key work in the understanding of romanticism, programme music, and the development of the orchestra, post-Beethoven. It is noted for having a title and a detailed programme, and for its connection with the composer's personal life and loves. This handbook situates the symphony within its time, and considers influences, literary as well as musical, that shaped its conception. Providing a close analysis of the symphony, its formal properties and melodic and textural elements (including harmony and counterpoint), it is a rich but accessible study which will appeal to music lovers, scholars, and students. It contains a translation of the programme, which sheds light on the form and character of each movement, and the unusual use of a melodic idée fixe representing a beloved woman. The unusual five-movement design permits a range of musical topics to be discussed and related to traditional symphonic elements: sonata form, a long Adagio, dance-type movements, and thematic development.

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486246574
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symphonie fantastique ; and, Harold in Italy written by Hector Berlioz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hector Berlioz (1803 1869), considered the father of modern orchestration, possessed an intuitive musical genius all the more remarkable for his limited formal musical education. A brilliant colorist, a master of the unexpected rhythmic break, he brought a new symphonic richness to Romantic music. Both damned and venerated by his contemporaries Mendelssohn considered him devoid of talent, Paganini declared him the one true heir to the spirit of Beethoven Berlioz seems to have sought in music a way to soothe and give voice to the turbulent psychological instabilities and contradictions of what has come to be called "program music" i.e., instrumental music with an extramusical significance. He strove to communicate musically the experiences, psychological themes, scenic description, and literary allusions more commonly associated with the confessional writings of Romantic poets. This Dover edition presents two of the greatest of these "program" pieces: the "Symphonie Fantastique" (1830) and "Harold in Italy" (1834). Here are the full scores of both major symphonic works painstakingly reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & Hartel edition, available for the first time in one convenient volume plus Berlioz's "program" for the "Symphonie Fantastique." Musicians and music lovers everywhere will value this high-quality, inexpensive edition ideal for study and performance."

Author : Francesca Brittan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107136326
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz written by Francesca Brittan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic symphony written by Hector Berlioz and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520046856
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Music and Musicians written by Robert Schumann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews of specific compositions are accompanied by Schumann's articles and epigrams on all aspects of music

Author : D. Kern Holoman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674067783
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlioz written by D. Kern Holoman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198167389
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music of Berlioz written by Julian Rushton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.