Julian Rushton (University of Leeds)

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique attracts wide audiences and is acknowledged as a landmark of music history. This book situates the symphony within French Romanticism and considers influences, literary as well as musical, that shaped its conception. Richly detailed and accessibly written, it will appeal to music lovers, scholars, and students.

Produktdetails

• New Cambridge Music Handbooks
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781009074889
• ISBN-10: 1009074881
• Artikelnr.: 68479409

Autorenporträt

Julian Rushton is Emeritus Professor, School of Music, University of Leeds. His publications include The Musical Language of Berlioz (1983), and as editor, The Cambridge Berlioz Encyclopedia (2018). He is past president of the Royal Musical Association and an honorary member of the American Musicological Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction, programme, outline
2. Literary and musical romanticism
3. Symphonie fantastique in Berlioz's lifetime
4. First movement: 'Rêveries, passions'
5. Second movement: 'Un bal'
6. Third movement: 'Scène aux champs'
7. Fourth movement: 'Marche au supplice'
8. Fifth movement: 'Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat'
9. The sequel
reception by composers
10. Reception: Schumann and musical form
11. Other approaches
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.