The Other Worlds Of Hector Berlioz

Author : Inge Van Rij
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316252871
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz written by Inge Van Rij and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

Author : Inge van Rij
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521896460
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz written by Inge van Rij and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253311641
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Music and Other Essays written by Hector Berlioz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486215631
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Hector Berlioz written by Hector Berlioz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1932-01-01 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Hector Berlioz written by Hector Berlioz and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612289274
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Hector Berlioz written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French composer Hector Berlioz believed in love at first sight. When he was 23, he attended a performance of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and fell head over heels in love with Harriet Smithson, an English actress who had a leading role. Harriet didn’t show any interest in him. She ignored his letters. When he tried to meet her backstage she ordered the guard to throw him out. Berlioz was hurt and angry. He wanted revenge. He got it by murdering Harriet—musically. She inspired Symphonie fantastique, his most famous work. The hero kills his beloved, is executed for the crime, and the symphony ends with a bizarre dance of ghosts, goblins and other monsters. In real life, Berlioz met Harriet several years later. He put on a special concert for her that included a performance of Symphonie fantastique. Harriet was impressed. Soon she fell in love with him and they were married. Did they live happily ever after?

Author : Francesca Brittan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226837653
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlioz and His World written by Francesca Brittan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461320
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Musical Madhouse written by Hector Berlioz and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination of light-hearted journalism and serious musical comment and analysis.

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069420
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies with a Few Words on His Trios and Sonatas, a Criticism of Fidelio, and an Introductory Essay on Music written by Hector Berlioz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring composer in his own right, Hector Berlioz made a considerable reputation and a modest living for himself writing about music. This compact volume gathers brief, pithy essays Berlioz wrote on Beethoven's nine symphonies, his opera, Fidelio, and his piano sonatas and trios. Berlioz vividly depicts the salient features of the music with observations that are acute and passionate, as valuable for musicians as for amateurs. Beyond its astute commentary on the music, however, Berlioz's book offers a rare firsthand look at the reception and reputation accorded Beethoven's music in the decades following his death. Berlioz transcribes the comments of amateurs leaving the conservatoire after a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and provides a mocking glimpse of the French appreciation of the great German composer: What stands in the way of the music of 'Fidelio' as regards the Parisian public is ... the great disdain of the composer for sonorous effects which are not justified. He addresses Beethoven's skillful use of the orchestra as an instrument of drama and the general disapprobation that greeted this approach. He also includes a satirical piece on the fad of calling up the spirit of a composer and transcribing new, posthumous compositions. Berlioz's essays testify to the tumult caused by Beethoven's music in his time and offer ways to approach the music that remain enlightening and fresh.

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.