Berlioz studies edited by Peter Bloom

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Peter

Cambridge University Press

Series:

Cambridge composer studies

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869--Criticism and interpretation.

Berlioz, Hector.

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press 1992

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains nine substantial essays by the world's leading Berlioz scholars. They cover various aspects of Berlioz's life and works and represent an important contribution to Berlioz research. The book includes essays based on documents, both biographical and musical, that give us, among other things, a portrait of the artist as a young man and a revealing view of an important but little-studied work of his maturity. There are readings of Romeo et Juliette and La Damnation de Faust that wrestle anew with the problems of the relationships between literature and music and - as Berlioz's music nearly always requires - with the problems of genre. Two views of Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été are presented which ask when and why the work was conceived, and how the work coheres. The practical question of Berlioz's metronome marks are here thoroughly studied for the first time. The volume closes with a novel piece, in dialogue form, by the elder statesman of Berlioz scholars, Jacques Barzun, who treats with exceptional grace the profound issues raised by Berlioz the man and musician

Contents:

The Reboul-Berlioz Collection / David Cairns

Berlioz and the metronome / Hugh MacDonald

Romeo and Juliet and Roméo et Juliette / Ian Kemp

In the shadows of Les Nuits d'été / Peter Bloom

Les Nuits d'été: cycle or collection? / Julian Rushton

'Ritter Berlioz' in Germany / David B. Levy

The Damnation of Faust: the perils of heroism in music / Katherine Reeve

Berlioz's version of Gluck's Orphée / Joël-Marie Fauquet

Overheard at Glimmerglass ('Famous last words') / Jacques Barzun

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

0511551428

9780511551420

OCLC:

852653546

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