Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Bowed and keyboard instruments in the age of Mozart
Beiträge teilweise in deutscher, teilweise in englischer und teilweise in französischer Sprache ; Zusammenfassungen in deutsch, englisch und französisch ; Literaturangaben
Berlioz
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.
Berlioz and His World
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 an...
Form, Program, and Metaphor in the Music of Berlioz
Few aspects of Berlioz's style are more idiosyncratic than his handling of musical form. This book, the first devoted solely to the topic, explores how his formal strategies are related to the poetic and dramatic sentiments that were his very reason for being. Rodgers draws upon Berlioz's ideas about musical representation and on the ideas that would have influenced him, arguing that the relationship between musical and extra-musical narrative in Berlioz's music is best construed as metaphorical rather than literal - 'intimate' but 'indirect' in Berlioz's words. Focusing on a type of varied-repetitive form that Berlioz used to evoke poetic ideas such as mania, obsession, and meditation, the book shows how, far from disregarding form when pushing the limits of musical evocation, Berlioz harnessed its powers to convey these ideas even more vividly.
The New Shudder
None
Saint-Saëns and the Stage
The first major study of Saint-Saëns's stage music, timed to coincide with revivals of his operas on stage.
"Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815?915 "
Introducing the concept of music and painting as 'rival sisters' during the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary collection explores the productive exchange-from rivalry to inspiration to collaboration-between the two media in the age of Romanticism and Modernism. The volume traces the relationship between art and music, from the opposing claims for superiority of the early nineteenth century, to the emergence of the concept of synesthesia around 1900. This collection puts forward a more complex history of the relationship between art and music than has been described in earlier works, including an intermixing of models and distinctions between approaches to them. Individual essays from art history, musicology, and literature examine the growing influence of art upon music, and vice versa, in the works of Berlioz, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Rodin, Debussy, and the Pre-Raphaelites, among other artists.
The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
Table of contents
Monumentale Erinnerung – ästhetische Erneuerung
Die Musikkritik und die musikbezogenen Schriften der sogenannten Neudeutschen sind Thema dieser Studie. Als Neudeutsche Schule wird die lockere Gruppierung von deutschen und französischen bzw. französischsprachigen Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet, zu der vor allem Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt und am Rande auch Robert Schumann und Schüler wie Hans von Bülow zählen. Untersucht werden sowohl die neudeutschen Schriften zu Beethovens Werk als auch die auf eigene Kompositionen bezogenen Texte der genannten Autoren. Im Mittelpunkt steht hier zum einen die Frage nach der durch die Erinnerung an Beethoven inspirierten progressiven Musikästhetik in Texten der Neudeutschen. Zum anderen behandelt der Band anhand der neudeutschen Beethoven-Rezeption die sich wandelnden Strategien des Medientransfers in Bezug auf die Versprachlichung von Musik nach 1800.
The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz
Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.
