The music of Berlioz / Julian Rushton.
| Author/creator | Rushton, Julian |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Description | xv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A biography of Berlioz's music. Provincial to prize-winner. Sources ; La Cote-Saint-Andre ; Paris ; Compositions to 1825 ; The Ferrand era ; The Prix de Rome ; Opus 1 -- The Romantic decade. Symphonie fantastique ; Italie! ; Le retour de l'artiste d'Italie ; Italian music ; The artist as hero ; Grande messe des morts ; Romeo et Juliette ; End of the romantic decade -- Damnation and after. Les annees mysterieuses ; The salvaging of Faust ; Purgatory ; Writing a Te Deum ; Empire and religion ; Les Troyens ; Swan songs -- Techniques and meanings. Implications of a musical biography. Intertextuality and the musical work ; A typology of borrowing ; Hermeneutics ; Words and music -- Techniques of composition. Musical language ; Compositional process ; The Messe solennelle and counterpoint ; Harmony revisited ; Harmony and expression ; The outre: "Le ballet des ombres" -- Signs and evocations. Introduction ; Topics and rhetoric ; The grotesque, the supernatural, the sublime ; Death and life, heaven and hell ; Exoticism, eroticism, and love ; Programmes -- The works. The lyric Berlioz. Romance, ballad, and 'Gothic song' ; After Irlande: romance to melodie ; The mature melodie ; Small choral works ; Arias in dramatic works -- Architecture, patriotism, and the end of the world. "Paris vaut une messe" ; A second vision of judgement: Grande messe des morts ; Architecture and patriotic fervour ; Te Deum -- A fantastic symphonist. Orchestral rhetoric: first essays ; Symphonie fantastique ; Brigands in the mountains: Harold en Italie ; Italian Liebestod: "Romeo au tombeau" ; Genre: the last symphonic works -- Berlioz dramatist. Introduction ; Benvenuto Cellini, "petit opera semi-seria" ; Concert opera: dramatic legend ; L'Enfance du Christ: oratorium einer Zukunftsmusiker? ; Les Troyens, tragedie lyrique -- Postscript. Beatrice et Benedict ; Posterity ; Berlioz conservative or radical? Success or failure? |
| Abstract | This is the first full-length musical study of Berlioz to take into account the rediscovered Messe solennelle. The author discusses all aspects of his work, without undue emphasis on a few more popular pieces. The first section consists of a comprehensive biography of Berlioz's musical works, tracing shifting patterns of productivity, approaches to genre, and the contrast between works which are aesthetically progressive or retrospective. The author then considers aspects of Berlioz's musical style, building upon earlier studies by the author and other recent scholarship. The final section offers a more substantial analysis of selected passages and an overall critical assessment. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 00045299 |
| ISBN | 0198167385 |
| ISBN | 0198166907 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.B5 R87 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |