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Music and fantasy in the age of Berlioz / Francesca Brittan.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3849 .B837 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brittan, Francesca, author.
- Series:
- New perspectives in music history and criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantastic, The, in music--History--19th century.
- Fantastic, The, in music.
- Music and literature--History--19th century.
- Music and literature.
- History.
- Music--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 357 pages : music ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In this book, Francesca Brittan invites us to listen to fantasy, attending both to literary descriptions of sound in otherworldly narratives, and to the wave of "fantastique" musical works published in France through the middle decades of the nineteenth century, including Berlioz's 1830 Symphonie fantastique and pieces by Liszt, Adam, Meyerbeer and others.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107136328
- 1107136326
- OCLC:
- 990973158
- Publisher Number:
- 99974189838
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