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Book Synopsis Selected Letters of Berlioz by : Hector Berlioz
Download or read book Selected Letters of Berlioz written by Hector Berlioz and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1997 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers letters the French composer wrote to friends, relatives, writers, and fellow composers and music critics about his life and music
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz by : Peter Bloom
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz written by Peter Bloom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive view of Berlioz the man, the composer, the critic and the writer.
Book Synopsis Life and Letters of Berlioz by : Hector Berlioz
Download or read book Life and Letters of Berlioz written by Hector Berlioz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume selection of Berlioz's letters to family, friends and fellow musicians, giving a first hand insight into his life.
Book Synopsis Experiencing Berlioz by : Melinda P. O'Neal
Download or read book Experiencing Berlioz written by Melinda P. O'Neal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Hector Berlioz by : Hector Berlioz
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.
Book Synopsis Berlioz and His World by : Francesca Brittan
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.
Download or read book Selected Letters written by Franz Liszt and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to what these missives tell us of the life and character of this extraordinarily charismatic composer and pianist, and of his ties to the other great musicians of the period, Franz Liszt's letters--most of which are here translated into English for the first time--also reveal the astonishing range of his relationships in literature, art, the church, politics, and among the great reigning houses of Europe.
Book Synopsis The Art of Music and Other Essays by : Hector Berlioz
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.
Book Synopsis The Life of Berlioz by : Peter Bloom
Download or read book The Life of Berlioz written by Peter Bloom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Book Synopsis Between Old Worlds and New by : Wilfrid Mellers
Download or read book Between Old Worlds and New written by Wilfrid Mellers and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfrid Mellers ranks among the most eminent of contemporary British writers and lecturers on music. The range of his interest is exceptionally wide, encompassing music from the renaissance to the present day, from Monteverdi to Minimalism, not excluding jazz and many different forms of popular music, as well as music from non-western cultures. That breadth of vision is nowhere more apparent than in his occasional writings. In these necessarily concentrated and closely focused pieces we find the essence of his thinking about music, its nature and its meaning. Written in the first instance for the general reader, they also offer insights that should be of importance to music students in schools, colleges, and universities.
Book Synopsis Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise by : Berlioz
Download or read book Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise written by Berlioz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book both by and about Berlioz, providing not only a translation but also an extensive commentary on his text, dealing with the instruments of Berlioz's time and comparing his instruction with his practice.
Book Synopsis Diaries and Selected Letters by : Mikhail Bulgakov
Download or read book Diaries and Selected Letters written by Mikhail Bulgakov and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of The Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diaries were seized by the authorities. From then on he confined his thoughts to letters to his friends and family, as well as to public figures such as Stalin and his fellow Soviet writer Gorky.This ample selection from the diaries and letters of Mikhail Bulgakov, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into the author's world and into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime.
Book Synopsis Choral Masterpieces by : Nicholas Tarling
Download or read book Choral Masterpieces written by Nicholas Tarling and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor, historian Nicholas Tarling surveys the landscape of choral works, some standard masterpieces that are commonly performed by choruses around the world, others deserving a second, closer look. As noted in the foreword by Uwe Grodd , music director of the Auckland Choral Society, this work “is a collection of essays about a number of outstanding works, including Beethoven’s Miss Solemnis and Britten’s War Requiem, but he also invites attention to lesser masterpieces. If the choral movement, which includes both singers and listeners, is to survive, new works must be created and repertory expanded. The book is an easy and captivating read even if you are not a chorister.” Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor features short essays on over 28 works, from major masterpieces such as Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion to off-the-beaten path choral works such as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha and Frederick Delius’ A Mass of Life. Throughout, Tarling offers assessments that sparkle with unique insights and at the same time ground listener’s in the historical contexts of the work’s production and performance. Each work is transformed in Tarling’s able hands from musical work into a window into the mind and milieu of the composer. Choral Masterpieces: Major and Minor mixes choral mainstays with works that demand revisiting. Choral singers and their audiences, as well as choral societies and their directions and promoters, will find ample food for thoughts in these meditations on the choral tradition.
Download or read book Berlioz written by Peter Bloom and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Musical Madhouse by : Hector Berlioz
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.
Book Synopsis The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert Mass by : Stephanie Rocke
Download or read book The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert Mass written by Stephanie Rocke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass is an extraordinary musical form. Whereas other Western art music genres from medieval times have fallen out of favour, the mass has not merely survived but flourished. A variety of historical forces within religious, secular, and musical arenas saw the mass expand well beyond its origins as a cycle of medieval chants, become concertised and ultimately bifurcate. Even as Western societies moved away from their Christian origins to become the religiously plural and politically secular societies of today, and the Church itself moved in favour of congregational singing, composers continued to compose masses. By the early twentieth century two forms of mass existed: the liturgical mass composed for church services, and the concert mass composed for secular venues. Spanning two millennia, The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert Mass outlines the origins and meanings of the liturgical texts, defines the concert mass, explains how and why the split occurred, and provides examples that demonstrate composers’ gradual appropriation of the genre as a vehicle for personal expression on serious issues. By the end of the twentieth century the concert mass had become a repository for an eclectic range of theological and political ideas.
Download or read book Berlioz written by David Cairns and published by Allan Lane. This book was released on 1999 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlioz, Volume I, previously published only in Britain, is now available to American readers in a revised edition, together with the eagerly awaited, new Volume II. These two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography.
