Francesca Brittan

Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781316501818
• ISBN-10: 1316501817
• Artikelnr.: 58565302

Autorenporträt

Francesca Brittan is Assistant Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. Her work focuses on music of the long nineteenth century, and has been published in a range of scholarly journals including 19th-Century Music, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. She was the 2012 winner of the American Musicological Society's Alfred Einstein Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: hearing fantasy
1. The fantastique moderne
2. Melancholy, monomania, and the monde fantastique
3. Le retour à la vie: natural magic and the ideal orchestra
4. Grammatical imaginaries
5. Listening in hell
6. Fairyology, entomology, and the Scherzo fantastique.