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Berlioz's Requiem / Jennifer Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Jennifer (Jennifer P.), author.
- Series:
- Oxford keynotes.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford keynotes
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Grande Messe des morts.
- Berlioz, Hector.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (120 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Why has Berlioz's Requiem has come to be understood as a product of 19th-century Romanticism and how can listeners understand it beyond that context? This book offers a fascinating exploration of the Requiem within the cultural context of French sacred music, the idea of the sacred sublime, and the ways in which sound and architecture correlate. It draws heavily on press materials, written correspondence, and archival materials as it presents the opportunity to hear a well-known work anew by moving beyond overly simplistic historiographical narratives.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Editor
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Series Editor's Introduction
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Gemstones and the Requiem
- Chapter 1 Hearing the Requiem in 1837
- December 5, 1837
- Chapter 2 Berlioz and the Aesthetics of Sacred Music
- Sacred Music in Decline
- Sacred Music's Expressive Potential
- A Berliozian "Aesthetic?"
- Chapter 3 Experiencing the Requiem: Berlioz and the Sacred Sublime
- Berlioz's Musical Sublime
- Hearing the Sacred Sublime
- The Requiem and the Sacred Sublime(s)
- Chapter 4 Building the Requiem: Berlioz as Aural Architect
- Sacred Space and Sacred Sound
- Building the Requiem at Saint-Eustache
- Chapter 5 Rehearing the Requiem
- Additional Sources for Reading and Listening
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 10, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-768884-5
- 0-19-768882-9
- OCLC:
- 1475283096
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